DRYDEN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

Dead water in English Criticism[365]
Milton[365]
Cowley[366]
The Prefatory matter of Gondibert[367]
The “Heroic Poem”[368]
Davenant’s Examen[369]
Hobbes’s Answer[370]
Dryden[371]
His advantages[372]
The early Prefaces[373]
The Essay of Dramatic Poesy[376]
Its setting and overture[376]
Crites for the Ancients[377]
Eugenius for the “last age”[378]
Lisideius for the French[378]
Dryden for England and Liberty[379]
Coda on rhymed plays, and conclusion[380]
Conspicuous merits of the piece[381]
The Middle Prefaces[382]
The Essay on Satire and the Dedication of the Æneis[385]
The Parallel of Poetry and Painting[386]
The Preface to the Fables[386]
Dryden’s general critical position[386]
His special critical method[387]
Dryden and Boileau[389]
Rymer[391]
The Preface to Rapin[392]
The Tragedies of the Last Age[394]
The Short View of Tragedy[395]
The Rule of Tom the Second[397]
Sprat[398]
Edward Phillips[398]
His Theatrum Poetarum[399]
Winstanley’s Lives[400]
Langbaine’s Dramatic Poets[400]
Temple[401]
Bentley[401]
Collier’s Short View[402]
Sir T. P. Blount[404]
Periodicals: The Athenian Mercury, &c.[406]
INTERCHAPTER V.[407]

BOOK VI.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ORTHODOXY.

CHAPTER I.

FROM ADDISON TO JOHNSON.

Criticism at Dryden’s death[426]
Bysshe’s Art of English Poetry[426]
Gildon[429]
Welsted[430]
Dennis[431]
On Rymer[432]
On Shakespeare[434]
On “Machines”[435]
His general theory of Poetry[435]
Addison[437]
The Account of the Best known English Poets[438]
The Spectator criticisms[440]
On True and False Wit[441]
On Tragedy[441]
On Milton[443]
The “Pleasures of the Imagination”[444]
His general critical value[447]
Steele[448]
Atterbury[449]
Swift[450]
The Battle of the Books[450]
The Tale of a Tub[451]
Minor works[451]
Pope[452]
The Letters[453]
The Shakespeare Preface[454]
Spence’s Anecdotes[454]
The Essay on Criticism[455]
The Epistle to Augustus[457]
Remarks on Pope as a critic[457]
And the critical attitude of his group[460]
Philosophical and Professional Critics[461]
Trapp[462]
Blair[462]
The Lectures on Rhetoric[463]
The Dissertation on Ossian[464]
Kames[465]
The Elements of Criticism[466]
Campbell[470]
The Philosophy of Rhetoric[470]
Harris[473]
The Philological Enquiries[474]
“Estimate” Brown: his History of Poetry[476]
Johnson: his preparation for criticism[477]
The Rambler on Milton[480]
On Spenser[482]
On History and Letter-writing[483]
On Tragi-comedy[483]
“Dick Minim”[484]
Rasselas[484]
The Shakespeare Preface[485]
The Lives of the Poets[486]
Their general merits[487]
The Cowley[489]
The Milton[489]
The Dryden and Pope[490]
The Collins and Gray[491]
The critical greatness of the Lives and of Johnson[493]
Minor Criticism: Periodical and other[496]
Goldsmith[498]
Vicesimus Knox[499]
Scott of Amwell[500]