Book description
CONTENTS:
I. INTRODUCTION
Historical and Social Background
Religious Background
Scientific Background
The Background of Criticism
Personalities
II. THE ENTERTAINERS
The Dramatists
The Poets
The Writers of Fiction
III. THE SATIRISTS
John Oldham
Samuel Butler
John Dryden
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Jonathan Swift
IV. THE ENTHUSIASTS
John Bunyan
Thomas Traherne
Thomas Burnet
V. THE MEN OF THE WORLD
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax
VI. VIRTUE, GOOD SENSE AND IMAGINATION: THE INFLUENCE OF JOHN LOCKE
VII. APOLOGIA: JOHN DRYDEN
