I. Extract from Thomas Wilson's Art of Rhetoric, 1554
II. Sir Philip Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert, 1580
III. Extract from Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia, 1598
IV. Dryden's Dedicatory Epistle to the Rival Ladies, 1664
V. Sir Robert Howard's Preface to four new Plays, 1665
VI. Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 1668
VII. Extract from Thomas Ellwood's History of Himself, describing
his relations with Milton, 1713
VIII. Bishop Copleston's Advice to a Young Reviewer, 1807
IX. The Bickerstaff and Partridge Tracts, 1708
X. Gay's Present State of Wit, 1711
XI. Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721
XII. Steele's Dedicatory Epistle to Congreve, 1722
XIII. Extract from Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia, 1669
XIV. Eachard's Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy
and of Religion, 1670
XV. Bickerstaff's Miseries of the Domestic Chaplain, 1710
XVI. Franklin's Poor Richard Improved, 1757