FROM POPE TO WORDSWORTH.
1700 TO 1790.
PAGE
INTRODUCTORY
243
TALK
XXXV. ON ALEXANDER POPE AND HIS SCHOOL OF
POETRY
246
XXXVI. ON PRIOR, GAY, AND PARNELL
251
XXXVII. ON THE AUTHOR OF “ROBINSON CRUSOE ”
257
XXXVIII. ON ADDISON AND STEELE, EDITORS OF
« THE
SPECTATOR”
264
XXXIX. ON ADDISON'S ESSAYS
270
XL. ON THE GREAT DEAN SWIFT
274
XLI. ENGLISH COMEDY WRITERS, CONGREVE, VAN-
BRUGH, AND FARQUHAR
282
XLII. A GROUP OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETS,
YOUNG, THOMSON, AND SHENSTONE .
286
XLIII. OTHER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETS, - GRAY,
COLLINS, AKENSIDE, AND BEATTIE
293
XLIV. ON THE BIRTH OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL : Rich.
ARDSON AND FIELDING .
298
XLV. THE NOVELISTS SMOLLETT AND STERNE
304
XLVI. ON DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON .
307
XLVII. ON OLIVER GOLDSMITH AND “ THE VICAR OF
WAKEFIELD"
313
XLVIII. ON THE FIRST WOMAN NOVELIST.
319
XLIX. THE WORK OF THOMAS PERCY AND JAMES
MACPHERSON, AND THE SAD STORY OF
THOMAS CHATTERTON, THE Bov.POET
L. ON WILLIAM COWPER AND ROBERT BURNS