XV. PEPYS, DRYDEN, AND THE RESTORATION
Pepys-The famous Diary-As a playgoer-Extracts from the
Diary-Evelyn's Diary-Samuel Butler-Hudibras-John
Dryden-A great poet-The Restoration dramatists-Congreve
and Wycherley.
XVI. FRENCH LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF LOUIS
XIV
Pascal-The French Academy-Pierre Corneille-Descartes-
Molière His life-His qualities as a writer-Bourgeois Gentil-
homme-Jean Racine-A supreme French writer-Jean de La
Fontaine and Charles Perrault-Perrault's fairy tales-La
Rochefoucauld's Maximes.
XVII. POPE, ADDISON, STEELE, SWIFT
Alexander Pope-His character-Rape of the
the Lock-The
Dunciad-Essay on Man-Addison and Steele―The rise of
the modern essay-The England of Queen Anne-Addison's-
career-The Tatler-The Spectator-Tatler and Spectator
compared-An abbey burial-Jonathan Swift-His life and
character-Relations with Stella-A master of prose-Tale of
a Tub-Gulliver's Travels.
XVIII. THE RISE OF THE NOVEL
Defoe-His life-Robinson Crusoe-Richardson's life-Clarissa
-Henry Fielding-A great writer-Tom Jones-Laurence
Sterne-His life-Tristram Shandy-A tragic death-Tobias
Smollett-Roderick Random-Humphry Clinker-Mrs. Rad-
cliffe and Miss Edgeworth-Anne Radcliffe-Maria Edgeworth
-Jane Austen-The perfect realist-Her life-The theme of
her novels.
XIX. THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETS
Chatterton-Thomas Gray-James Thomson-William Cowper. XX. DR. JOHNSON AND HIS CIRCLE
"A vile melancholy"-Johnson's Dictionary-The Rambler-
Rasselas The Lives of the Poets-Johnson's Talk-Oliver
Goldsmith-The Traveller-The Citizen of the World-The
Vicar of Wakefield-Edmund Burke-Great thoughts in great