| Essays on the English Poets | [638] |
| Last Essays | [639] |
| O. W. Holmes | [639] |
| The whole duty of critics stated by him in alia materia | [639] |
| Whitman and the “Democratic” ideal | [640] |
| Margaret Fuller | [641] |
| Ripley | [642] |
| Whipple | [642] |
| Lanier | [643] |
| INDEX | [647] |
BOOK VII
THE DISSOLVENTS OF NEO-CLASSICISM
“May there not be something in the Gothic Romance peculiarly suited to the views of a genius and to the ends of poetry? And may not the philosophic moderns have gone too far in their perpetual ridicule and contempt of it?”—Hurd.
“Quelquefois un besoin de philosopher gâte tout.”—Joubert.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY AND RETROSPECTIVE.
[SCOPE OF THE VOLUME]—[THE TERM MODERN]—[THE ORIGINS]—[NEED OF CAUTION HERE]—[CASE OF BUTLER ON RYMER, DENHAM]—[AND BENLOWES]—[OF ADDISON AND OTHERS]—[OF LA BRUYÈRE AND “TOUT EST DIT”]—[OF FÉNELON AND GRAVINA]—[OF DRYDEN AND FONTENELLE]—[THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY].
Scope of the volume.