Chapter II: Introduction: 1

I. JOHN DRYDEN AS A POET 7

II. POETS CONTEMPORARY WITH DRYDEN 42

III. LYRIC POETRY 67

IV. DRYDEN AND THE RESTORATION DRAMA 76

V. DRAMATIC POETS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 101

VI. THE LATER COMEDY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 123

VII. CRITICISM 149

VIII. PHILOSOPHY 155

IX. WRITERS ON GOVERNMENT 168

X. HISTORIES AND MEMOIRS OF PUBLIC TRANSACTIONS 177

XI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY 195

XII. DIVINITY 221

XIII. BUNYAN AND OTHER WRITERS OF FICTION 233

XIV. ESSAYISTS AND LETTER WRITERS, LITERARY HISTORIANS 248

XV. ANTIQUARIANS AND MEN OF SCIENCE 259

XVI. TRAVELLERS 272

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 281

INDEX 285

THE AGE OF DRYDEN.