A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical

Historical Sketch, General Characteristics - POETRY FROM 1700 TO
1745: Pope, Sketch of his Literary Life; Addison, Gay, Parnell, Swift,
Thomson, Prior, Garth, Blackmore, Defoe, Tickell, Savage, Dyer, A.
Philips, J. Philips, Watts, Ramsay - THE DRAMA: Addison, Rowe,
Thomson, Young, Southern, Steele - Prose Comedy: Farquhar, Van-
brugh, Cibber, Centlivre, Gay - LEARNING, 1700-1745: Bentley, Lard-

ner

PROSE FICTION: Swift, Defoe - Pamphleteers: Swift, Arbuth-
not-Periodical Miscellany: "Tatler," "Spectator," "Guardian," &c.
Satirical Works: Swift's "Tale of a Tub"- HISTORY, 1700-1745:

Burnet, Rapin - POETRY, 1745-1800: Johnson, Gray, Churchill, Cow-

per, Burns, Minor Poets, "The Rolliad"— THE DRAMA: Home, John-

son, Goldsmith, Sheridan, and others - PROSE FICTION, 1745-1800:

Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith, Miss Burney, God-

win -ORATORY: Chatham, Burke, &c.-Pamphleteers: Junius, Burke,

Johnson HISTORY, 1745-1800: Hume, Robertson, Gibbon - Biogra-

phers: Boswell, &c.— THEOLOGY: the English Deists; Bentley, But-

ler's Analogy," Berkeley; Warburton; Methodism; Middleton;

Challoner - PHILOSOPHY: Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Butler, Paley -

Political Science: Hume, Burke, Godwin, Paine - Political Economy:

Adam Smith - Criticism: Burke, Reynolds, &c.

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CHAPTER VII.

MODERN TIMES: 1800-1850.

Re-action against the Ideas of the Eighteenth Century - Theory of the

Spontaneous in Poetry. - POETRY: Sir Walter Scott, Sketch of his

Literary Life; Keats, Shelley, Byron, Crabbe, Coleridge, Southey,

Campbell, Wordsworth, Moore, Hood, Hogg, &c. - PROSE WRITERS:

Definition of Literature-Poetry and Prose Writings - Classification
of Poetical Compositions -EPIC POETRY: the "Paradise Lost"- DRA-
MATIC POETRY: its Kinds; Shakspeare, Addison, Ben Jonson, Milton
- HEROIC POETRY: "The Bruce," "The Campaign Mock-Heroic
Poems: Pope's "Rape of the Lock," Garth's "Dispensary "— NAR-
RATIVE POETRY: 1. Romances: "Sir Isumbras;" 2. Tales: Chaucer
and the Canterbury Tales, Falconer, Crabbe, Parnell; 3. Allegories:
"Vision of Piers Plowman," "Flower and the Leaf," Spenser's "Fae-
ry Queen,"
‚” “Castle of Indolence;" Fables: Gay, Mrs. Thrale, Mer-

rick; 4. Romantic Poems: Scott's "Lay" and others; Byron's Orien-

tal Tales; "Lalla Rookh;" 5. Historical Poems: Rhyming Chroniclers;

Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis "— DIDACTIC POETRY: "The Hind and

Panther;" "Essay on Man;" "Essay on Criticism; "Vanity of

Human Wishes" - SATIRICAL POETRY: of three Kinds, Moral, Per-

sonal, Political; Satires of Doune, Hall, and Swift; Pope's Satires,

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Moral Essays, "The Dunciad;" Dryden's "M'Flecknoe;" "English

Bards and Scotch Reviewers;" "Hudibras;" "Absalom and Achito-

phel," Churchill, Peter Pindar, Moore's Satires, "The Vicar of

Bray"- PASTORAL POETRY: Spenser, Browne, Pope, Shenstone

DESCRIPTIVE POETRY: "Polyolbion," "Cooper's Hill," "The Seasons'

— LYRICAL POETRY: its Kinds; Devotional, Loyal, Patriotic, Amatory,

Bacchanalian, Martial; Specimens of each Kind-ELEGIAC POETRY:

"Fidele," "The Castaway," Lycidas," "Adonais" - MISCELLANE-

OUS POETRY: 1. Poems founded on the Passions and Affections; 2.
Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: "Childe Harold," Wordsworth's
'Ode;" 3. Poems of Imagination and Fancy: Shelley's "Skylark;"

4. Philosophical Poetry

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Prose Writings-1. PROSE FICTION; Classification of Works of Fiction.

Historical Novels: Scott. Novels of High Life: Richardson. Novels

of Middle Life: Fielding, Miss Austen. Novels of Low Life: Dickens,

Smollett WORKS OF SATIRE, WIT, AND HUMOR: "Tale of a Tub;

66 Battle of the Books;'

;""The Anti-Jacobin;" Sterne; Sydney Smith