ENGLISH CRITICISM—1860-1900.

Matthew Arnold: one of the greater critics[515]
His position defined early[516]
The Preface of 1853[517]
Analysis of it[517]
And interim summary of its gist[520]
Contrast with Dryden[520]
Chair-work at Oxford, and contributions to periodicals[521]
On Translating Homer[522]
The “grand style”[522]
Discussion of it[523]
The Study of Celtic Literature[526]
Its assumptions[527]
The Essays: their case for Criticism[527]
Their examples thereof[529]
The latest work[530]
The Introduction to Ward’s English Poets[531]
“Criticism of Life”[531]
Poetic Subject or Poetic Moment[532]
Arnold’s accomplishment and position as a critic[534]
The Carlylians[537]
Kingsley[538]
Froude[539]
Mr Buskin[539]
G. H. Lewes[540]
His Principles of Success in Literature[540]
His Inner Life of Art[542]
Bagehot[542]
R. H. Hutton[543]
His evasions of literary criticism[544]
Pater[544]
His frank Hedonism[545]
His polytechny and his style[545]
His formulation of the new critical attitude[546]
The Renaissance[546]
Objections to its process[547]
Importance of Marius the Epicurean[547]
Appreciations and the “Guardian” Essays[548]
Universality of his method[551]
Mr J. A. Symonds[551]
Thomson (“B. V.”)[552]
William Minto[553]
His books on English Prose and Poetry[554]
H. D. Traill[554]
His critical strength[555]
On Sterne and Coleridge[555]
Essays on Fiction[556]
“The Future of Humour”[556]
Others: Mansel, Venables, Stephen, Lord Houghton, Pattison, Church, &c.[557]
Patmore[558]
Mr Edmund Gurney[559]
The Power of Sound[559]
Tertium Quid[560]

CHAPTER IV.

LATER GERMAN CRITICISM.

Heine: deceptiveness of his criticism[563]
In the Romantische Schule, and elsewhere[563]
The qualities and delights of it[564]
Schopenhauer[566]
Vividness and originality of his critical observation[567]
Die Welt als Wille, &c.[568]
Grillparzer[569]
His motto in criticism[569]
His results in aphorism[570]
And in individual judgment[571]
A critic of limitations: but a critic[571]
Carrière: his Æsthetik[573]
Later German Shakespeare-critics[575]
Gervinus: his German Poetry[575]
On Bürger[576]
The Shakespeare-heretics: Rümelin[577]
Freytag[578]
Hillebrand and cosmopolitan criticism[579]
Nietzsche[581]
Zarathustra, the Birth of Tragedy, and Der Fall Wagner[582]
Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen[582]
La Gaya Scienza[583]
Jenseits von Gut und Böse, &c.[584]
Götzen-Dämmerung[585]
His general critical position[586]

CHAPTER V.

REVIVALS AND COMMENCEMENTS.

Limitations of this chapter[587]
Spain[588]
Italy[588]
De Sanctis[589]
Character of his work[590]
Switzerland[591]
Vinet[592]
Sainte-Beuve on him[592]