| PAGE | | Introduction | 1 | | PART I. THE POETS. | | CHAP. | | I. | Alexander Pope | 27 | | II. | Matthew Prior—John Gay—Edward Young—Robert Blair—James Thomson | 65 | | III. | Sir Samuel Garth—Ambrose Philips—John Philips—Nicholas Rowe—Aaron Hill—Thomas Parnell—Thomas Tickell—William Somerville—John Dyer—William Shenstone—Mark Akenside—David Mallet—Scottish Song-Writers | 96 | | PART II. THE PROSE WRITERS. | | IV. | Joseph Addison—Sir Richard Steele | 125 | | V. | Jonathan Swift—John Arbuthnot | 151 | | VI. | Daniel Defoe—John Dennis—Colley Cibber—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu—Earl of Chesterfield—Lord Lyttelton—Joseph Spence | 180 | | VII. | Francis Atterbury—Lord Shaftesbury—Bernard de Mandeville—Lord Bolingbroke—George Berkeley—William Law—Joseph Butler—William Warburton | 207 | | Index of Minor Poets and Prose Writers | 242 | | Chronological Table | 249 | | Alphabetical List of Writers | 253 | | Index | 255 |
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