From Dryden to Johnson / edited by Boris Ford

Includes appendix and index

General introduction -- Boris Ford The social setting -- A. R. Humphreys The literary scene -- A. R. Humphreys John Dryden -- F. N. Lees Samuel Butler and Hudibras -- Ian Jack Language 1660-1784 -- A. S. Collins Literary theory and literary criticism -- P. A. W. Collins Literature and science -- C. J. Horne Defoe as novelist -- Ian Watt The periodical essayists -- Jane H. Hack An approach to swift -- D. W. Jefferson Alexander Pope -- Norman Callan Poetry In the eighteenth century -- T. S. Eliot William Hogarth -- V. De S. Pinto Samuel Richardson -- Frank Bradbrook Fielding and Smollett -- A. R. Humphreys Tristram Shandy and its tradition -- D. W. Jefferson Augustan reflective poetry -- Norman Callan Oliver Goldsmith -- Boris Ford William Cowper -- D. J. Enright Johnson -- A. R. Humphreys Architecture and landscape -- A. R. Humphreys