STEELE AND SWIFT.

Sir Richard Steele--Periodicals--The Crisis--His Last Days--Jonathan
Swift: Poems--The Tale of a Tub--Battle of the Books--Pamphlets--M. B.
Drapier--Gulliver's Travels--Stella and Vanessa--His Character and
Death

CHAPTER XXVII.

THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN FICTION.

The New Age--Daniel Defoe--Robinson Crusoe--Richardson--Pamela, and
Other Novels--Fielding--Joseph Andrews--Tom Jones--Its
Moral--Smollett--Roderick Random--Peregrine Pickle

CHAPTER XXVIII.

STERNE, GOLDSMITH, AND MACKENZIE.

The Subjective School--Sterne: Sermons--Tristram Shandy--Sentimental
Journey--Oliver Goldsmith--Poems: The Vicar--Histories, and Other
Works--Mackenzie--The Man of Feeling

CHAPTER XXIX.

THE HISTORICAL TRIAD IN THE SCEPTICAL AGE.

The Sceptical Age--David Hume--History of England--Metaphysics--Essay
on Miracles--Robertson--Histories--Gibbon--The Decline and Fall

CHAPTER XXX.

SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS TIMES.

Early Life and Career--London--Rambler and Idler--The Dictionary--Other
Works--Lives of the Poets--Person and Character--Style--Junius

CHAPTER XXXI.

THE LITERARY FORGERS IN THE ANTIQUARIAN AGE.

The Eighteenth Century--James Macpherson--Ossian--Thomas
Chatterton--His Poems--The Verdict--Suicide--The Cause

CHAPTER XXXII.

POETRY OF THE TRANSITION SCHOOL.

The Transition Period--James Thomson--The Seasons--The Castle of
Indolence--Mark Akenside--Pleasures of the Imagination--Thomas
Gray--The Elegy. The Bard--William Cowper--The Task--Translation of
Homer--Other Writers

CHAPTER XXXIII.

THE LATER DRAMA.

The Progress of the Drama--Garrick--Foote--Cumberland--Sheridan--George
Colman--George Colman, the Younger--Other Dramatists and
Humorists--Other Writers on Various Subjects

CHAPTER XXXIV.

THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: SCOTT.

Walter Scott--Translations and Minstrelsy--The Lay of the Last
Minstrel--Other Poems--The Waverley Novels--Particular
Mention--Pecuniary Troubles--His Manly Purpose--Powers
Overtasked--Fruitless Journey--Return and Death--His Fame

CHAPTER XXXV.

THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: BYRON AND MOORE.

Early Life of Byron--Childe Harold and Eastern Tales--Unhappy
Marriage--Philhellenism and Death--Estimate of his Poetry--Thomas
Moore--Anacreon--Later Fortunes--Lalla Rookh--His Diary--His Rank as
Poet

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY (C