Chapter 1; MILTON AND DRYDEN; Chapter 2 SIR JOHN VANBRUGH; Chapter 3 BERNARD MANDEVILLE; Chapter 4 DANIEL DEFOE; Chapter 5 JOSEPH ADDISON; Chapter 6 LAURENCE STERNE; Chapter 7 NATURE POETRY in the EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; Chapter 8 CRÉBILLON FILS; Chapter 9 BYRON's DRAMAS; Chapter 10 WILLIAM HAZLITT; Chapter 11 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR; Chapter 12 ROBERT SMITH SURTEES; Chapter 13 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY; Chapter 14 OUIDA;