Letter I. _The Subject proposed.

II. _Origin of Chivalry._

III. _Characteristics of, accounted for._

IV. _Heroic and_ Gothic _manners_, _compared_.

V. _Their differences, noted._

VI. Gothic _manners more poetical_, _than the Heroic_.

VII. _Their effect on_ SPENSER, MILTON, SHAKESPEAR.

VIII. _Fairy Queen criticized—the method of that poem explained and justified._

IX. TASSO’S Gier. Lib. _considered_—_history of the_ Italian _poetry_.

X. _Fairy way of writing—vindicated._

XI. Gothic _poetry_, _whence fallen into disrepute_.

XII. _Steps of its decline, traced._

LETTERS

ON

CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE.