CHAPTER II.
THE CONTEMPORARIES OF VOLTAIRE.
| Close connection of French seventeenth and eighteenth century Criticism: Fontenelle | [501] |
| Exceptional character of his criticism | [502] |
| His attitude to the “Ancient and Modern” Quarrel | [503] |
| The Dialogues des Morts | [503] |
| Other critical work | [504] |
| La Motte | [507] |
| His “Unity of Interest” | [508] |
| Rollin | [509] |
| Brumoy | [509] |
| Rémond de Saint-Mard | [510] |
| L. Racine | [511] |
| Du Bos | [511] |
| Stimulating but desultory character of his Réflexions | [512] |
| Montesquieu | [514] |
| Voltaire: disappointment of his criticism | [515] |
| Examples of it | [515] |
| Causes of his failure | [518] |
| Others: Buffon | [519] |
| “Style and the man” | [520] |
| Vauvenargues | [521] |
| Batteux | [522] |
| His adjustment of Rules and Taste | [523] |
| His incompleteness | [524] |
| Marmontel | [525] |
| Oddities and qualities of his criticism | [526] |
| Others | [529] |
| Thomas, Suard, &c. | [529] |
| La Harpe | [530] |
| His Cours de Littérature | [530] |
| His critical position as ultimus suorum | [531] |
| The Academic Essay | [533] |
| Rivarol | [534] |
CHAPTER III.
CLASSICISM IN THE OTHER NATIONS.
| Preliminary remarks | [537] |
| Temporary revival of Italian Criticism | [538] |
| Gravina | [538] |
| Muratori: his Della Perfetta Poesia | [541] |
| Crescimbeni | [542] |
| Quadrio | [542] |
| The emergence of literary history | [545] |
| Further decadence of Italian criticism | [545] |
| Metastasio | [546] |
| Neo-classicism triumphs in Spain | [546] |
| The absurdities of Artiga | [547] |
| Luzán | [548] |
| The rest uninteresting | [549] |
| Feyjóo, Isla, and others | [549] |
| Rise at last of German Criticism | [550] |
| Its school time | [551] |
| Classicism at bay almost from the first—Gottsched | [552] |
| The Versuch einer Critischen Dichtkunst | [553] |
| Its chief idea | [553] |
| Specimen details | [555] |
| Gellert: he transacts | [557] |
INTERCHAPTER VI.
| § I. THE NEMESIS OF CORRECTNESS | [559] |
| § II. THE BALANCE-SHEET OF NEO-CLASSIC CRITICISM | [566] |