First principles: -- The Three kinds of Criticism -- Description: its Themes and Languages -- -- John Dryden: -- The Precursors -- The early Dryden -- Rymer and Dennis -- The later Dryden -- --The Augustans: -- Pope -- Addison -- Fielding -- -- Samuel Johnson -- Wordsworth and coleridge -- Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey -- Matthw Arnold -- Henry James -- -- The early twentieth century: -- T.S. Eliot -- I.A.Richards -- William Empson -- F.R. Leavis -- -- The mid-centrury scene: -- The Moralists -- The New Critics -- The Historians
