This survey covers English literature from Dryden’s death to Pope’s: Pope himself, Prior, Gay, Young, Thomson and lesser poets, then the prose of Addison and Steele, Swift and Arbuthnot, Defoe, Colley Cibber, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Bishop Berkeley and others, with brief, opinionated judgements of their work.
A concise Victorian guide to the Augustan age, for readers exploring eighteenth-century literature. Download the free EPUB.