BOOK III.--THE CLASSIC AGE

CHAPTER FIRST The Restoration

_Part I.--The Roisterers_

SECTION I.--The Excesses of Puritanism SECTION II.--A Frenchman's View of the Manners of the Time SECTION III.--Butler's Hudibras SECTION IV.--Morals of the Court SECTION V.--Method and Style of Hobbes SECTION VI.--The Theatre SECTION VII.--Dryden and the Drama SECTION VIII.--Wycherley

_PART II.--The Worldlings_

SECTION I.--Court Life in Europe SECTION II.--Dawn of the Classic Spirit SECTION III.--Sir William Temple SECTION IV.--Writers à la Mode SECTION V.--Sir John Denham SECTION VI.--Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar SECTION VII.--Superficiality of English Comedy SECTION VIII.--Natural Characters SECTION IX.--Artificial Characters SECTION X.--Sheridan.--Decadence of the Theatre

CHAPTER SECOND Dryden

SECTION I.--Dryden's Début SECTION II.--Dryden's Family and Education SECTION III.--Dramatic Theories of Dryden SECTION IV.--The Style of Dryden's Plays SECTION V.--His Merit as a Dramatist SECTION VI.--His Prose Style SECTION VII.--How Literature in England is Occupied with Politics and Religion SECTION VIII.--Development of the Art of Writing SECTION IX.--Dryden's Translations and Adaptations.--His Occasional Soul--Stirring Verses SECTION X.--Misfortunes of Dryden's Old Age

CHAPTER THIRD The Revolution

SECTION I.--The Moral Revolution SECTION II.--Brutality of The People.--Private Morals.--Chesterfield and Gay SECTION III.--Principles of Civilization in France and England SECTION IV.--Religion SECTION V.--The Pulpit SECTION VI.--Theology SECTION VII.--The Constitution.--Locke's Theory of Government SECTION VIII.--Parliamentary Orators SECTION IX.--Doctrines of the French Revolution Contrasted with the Conservative Tendencies of the English People

CHAPTER FOURTH Addison

SECTION I.--The Significance of the Writings of Addison and Swift SECTION II.--Addison's Character and Education SECTION III.--Addison's Seriousness.--His Nobility of Character SECTION IV.--The Morality of Addison's Essays SECTION V.--How Addison made Morality Fashionable.--Characteristics of his Style SECTION VI.--Addison's Gallantry.--His Humor.--Sir Roger de Coverley.--The Vision of Mirza

CHAPTER FIFTH Swift

SECTION I.--Concerning Swift's Life and Character SECTION II.--Swift's Prosaic and Positive Mind SECTION III.--Swift as a Political Pamphleteer SECTION IV.--Swift as a Humorist.--As a Poet SECTION V.--Swift as a Narrator and Philosopher

CHAPTER SIXTH The Novelists

SECTION I.--The Anti-Romantic Novel SECTION II.--Daniel De Foe SECTION III.--The Evolution of the Eighteenth Century Novel SECTION IV.--Samuel Richardson SECTION V.--Henry Fielding SECTION VI.--Tobias Smollett SECTION VII.--Laurence Sterne SECTION VIII.--Oliver Goldsmith SECTION IX.--Samuel Johnson SECTION X.--William Hogarth

INDEX

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