ABSTRACT

First published in 1970. This collection of essays covers the work of Milton, Dryden, Sir John Vanburgh, Defoe, Mandeville, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Byron, Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Smith Surtees, Thackeray and Maria Louise (de la) Ramee better known as Ouida.

chapter |21 pages

Milton And Dryden

A Comparison in Poetic Ideas and Poetic Method *

chapter |12 pages

Sir John Vanbrugh

Play-writing *

chapter |7 pages

Bernard Mandeville

A Letter to Dion *

chapter |23 pages

Daniel Defoe *

chapter |13 pages

Joseph Addison

The Spectator *

chapter |6 pages

Laurence Sterne *

chapter |11 pages

Crébillon Fils

The Sofa: A Moral Tale *

chapter |24 pages

Byron's Dramas *

chapter |9 pages

William Hazlitt *

chapter |17 pages

Walter Savage Landor

His Prose *

chapter |16 pages

Robert Smith Surtees *

The Novels

chapter |6 pages

Ouida *