LATER WRITERS.

Aulus Gellius: the Noctes Atticæ[323]
Macrobius: the Saturnalia[329]
Servius on Virgil[334]
Other commentators[341]
Ausonius[342]
The Anthologia Latina[344]
The Latin Rhetoricians[345]
Rutilius Lupus, &c.[346]
Curius Fortunatianus: his Catechism[346]
Marius Victorinus on Cicero[348]
Others[349]
Martianus Capella[349]
INTERCHAPTER II.[355]

BOOK III.

MEDIÆVAL CRITICISM.

CHAPTER I.

BEFORE DANTE.

Characteristics of mediæval literature[372]
Its attitude to criticism[373]
Importance of prosody[373]
The early formal Rhetorics—Bede[374]
Isidore[375]
Alcuin(?)[375]
Another track of inquiry[377]
St Augustine a Professor of Rhetoric[377]
His attitude to literature before and after his conversion[378]
Analysis of the Confessions from this point of view[378]
A conclusion from this to the general patristic view of literature[380]
Sidonius Apollinaris[383]
His elaborate epithet-comparison[385]
And minute criticisms of style and metre[386]
A deliberate critique[388]
Cassiodorus[389]
Boethius[390]
Critical attitude of the fifth century[391]
The sixth—Fulgentius[392]
The Fulgentii and their books[393]
The Super Thebaiden and Expositio Virgiliana[394]
Venantius Fortunatus[396]
Isidore of Seville again[400]
Bede again[402]
His Ars Metrica[403]
The Central Middle Ages to be more rapidly passed over[405]
Provençal and Latin treatises[407]
The De Dictamine Rhythmico[407]
John of Garlandia[408]
The Labyrinthus[408]
Critical review of poets contained in it[409]
Minor rhythmical treatises[411]
Geoffrey de Vinsauf: his Nova Poetria[412]