The history of Boileau’s reputation[280]
The Art Poétique[281]
Its false literary history[281]
Abstract of it[282]
Critical examination of it[286]
Want of originality[287]
Faults of method[287]
Obsession of good sense[288]
Arbitrary proscriptions[289]
Boileau’s other works[290]
The Satires[290]
The Epigrams and Epistles[292]
Prose—The Héros de Roman; the Réflexions sur Longin[292]
The “Dissertation on Joconde”[293]
A “Solifidian of Good Sense”[295]
The plea for his practical services[296]
Historical examination of this[296]
Concluding remarks on him[299]
La Bruyère and Fénelon[300]
The “Des Ouvrages de l’Esprit”[301]
General observations[302]
Judgments of authors[303]
Fénelon. The Dialogues sur l’Eloquence[305]
Sur les Occupations de l’Académie Française[306]
And its challenge to correctness[307]
The Abbé D’Aubignac[309]
His Pratique du Théâtre[309]
Rapin[310]
His method partly good[311]
His particular absurdities as to Homer in blame[311]
As to Virgil in praise[312]
As to others[313]
The reading of his riddle[313]
Le Bossu and the Abstract Epic[314]
Bouhours[315]
Encyclopædias and Newspapers[316]
Bayle[316]
Baillet[317]
The ethos of a Critical Pedant[318]
Gibert[319]
The Ancient and Modern Quarrel[320]
Its small critical value[321]

CHAPTER II.

THE ITALIAN DECADENCE AND THE SPANIARDS.

Decadence of Italian Criticism[323]
Paolo Beni[324]
Possevino: his Bibliotheca Selecta[325]
Tassoni: his Pensieri Diversi[326]
Aromatari[328]
His Degli Autori del Ben Parlare[329]
Boccalini and Minors[329]
Influence of the Ragguagli[330]
The set of Seicentist taste[331]
Spanish criticism: highly ranked by Dryden?[331]
The Origins—Villena[333]
Santillana[333]
Encina[335]
Valdés[335]
The beginning of regular Criticism. Humanist Rhetoricians[336]
Poetics: Rengifo[337]
Pinciano[338]
La Cueva[341]
Carvallo[341]
Gonzales de Salas[341]
The Cigarrales of Tirso de Molina[343]
Lope’s Arte Nuevo, &c.[344]
His assailants and defenders[346]
The fight over the Spanish drama[347]
Cervantes and Calderon[347]
Gongorism, Culteranism, &c.[349]
Quevedo[349]
Gracián[349]
The limitations of Spanish criticism[350]

CHAPTER III.

GERMAN AND DUTCH CRITICISM.

The hindmost of all[352]
Origins[353]
Sturm[353]
Fabricius[354]
Version A.[354]
Version B.[354]
Jac. Pontanus[355]
Heinsius: the De Tragœdiæ Constitutione[356]
Voss[357]
His Rhetoric[358]
His Poetics[359]
Opitz[360]
The Buch der Deutschen Poeterei[361]

CHAPTER IV.