CHAPTER I.

FROM ADDISON TO JOHNSON.

Criticism at Dryden’s death 426 Bysshe’s _Art of English Poetry_ 426 Gildon 429 Welsted 430 Dennis 431 On Rymer 432 On Shakespeare 434 On “Machines” 435 His general theory of Poetry 435 Addison 437 The _Account of the Best known English Poets_ 438 The _Spectator_ criticisms 440 On True and False Wit 441 On Tragedy 441 On Milton 443 The “Pleasures of the Imagination” 444 His general critical value 447 Steele 448 Atterbury 449 Swift 450 _The Battle of the Books_ 450 The _Tale of a Tub_ 451 Minor works 451 Pope 452 The _Letters_ 453 The Shakespeare Preface 454 Spence’s _Anecdotes_ 454 The _Essay on Criticism_ 455 The _Epistle to Augustus_ 457 Remarks on Pope as a critic 457 And the critical attitude of his group 460 Philosophical and Professional Critics 461

Trapp 462 Blair 462 The _Lectures on Rhetoric_ 463 The _Dissertation on Ossian_ 464 Kames 465 The _Elements of Criticism_ 466 Campbell 470 The _Philosophy of Rhetoric_ 470 Harris 473 The _Philological Enquiries_ 474 “Estimate” Brown: his _History of Poetry_ 476 Johnson: his preparation for criticism 477 _The Rambler_ on Milton 480 On Spenser 482 On History and Letter-writing 483 On Tragi-comedy 483 “Dick Minim” 484 _Rasselas_ 484 The Shakespeare Preface 485 The _Lives of the Poets_ 486 Their general merits 487 The _Cowley_ 489 The _Milton_ 489 The _Dryden_ and _Pope_ 490 The _Collins_ and _Gray_ 491 The critical greatness of the _Lives_ and of Johnson 493 Minor Criticism: Periodical and other 496 Goldsmith 498 Vicesimus Knox 499 Scott of Amwell 500