CONTENTS

I. Extract from Thomas Wilson's _Art of Rhetoric_, 1554
II. Sir Philip Sidney's _Letter to his brother Robert_, 1580
III. Extract from Francis Meres's _Palladis Tamia_, 1598
IV. Dryden's _Dedicatory Epistle to the Rival Ladies_, 1664
V. Sir Robert Howard's _Preface to four new Plays_, 1665
VI. Dryden's _Essay of Dramatic Poesy_, 1668
VII. Extract from Thomas Ellwood's _History of Himself_, describing
his relations with Milton, 1713
VIII. Bishop Copleston's Advice to a Young Reviewer, 1807
IX. The Bickerstaff and Partridge Tracts, 1708
X. Gay's _Present State of Wit_, 1711
XI. Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721
XII. Steele's Dedicatory Epistle to Congreve, 1722
XIII. Extract from Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia, 1669
XIV. Eachard's Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy
and of Religion, 1670
XV. Bickerstaff's Miseries of the Domestic Chaplain, 1710
XVI. Franklin's Poor Richard Improved, 1757




INTRODUCTION

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