2. The Drama 46

3. The Seventeenth Century: Dryden 59

4. The Eighteenth Century
(a) Swift 65
(b) The Somers Tracts 70
(c) The Lives of the Novelists, and Comments on other
Eighteenth Century Writers 72


CHAPTER IV.

Scott's Criticism of His Contemporaries 81


CHAPTER V.

Scott as a Critic of His Own Work 108


CHAPTER VI.

Scott's Position as Critic 134


APPENDICES

I. Bibliography of Scott, Annotated 147
II. List of Books Quoted 174