The _Essay on Satire_ and the _Dedication of the Æneis_ 385 The Parallel of Poetry and Painting 386 The _Preface to the Fables_ 386 Dryden’s general critical position 386 His special critical method 387 Dryden and Boileau 389 Rymer 391 The _Preface to Rapin_ 392 The _Tragedies of the Last Age_ 394 The _Short View of Tragedy_ 395 The Rule of Tom the Second 397 Sprat 398 Edward Phillips 398 His _Theatrum Poetarum_ 399 Winstanley’s _Lives_ 400 Langbaine’s _Dramatic Poets_ 400 Temple 401 Bentley 401 Collier’s _Short View_ 402 Sir T. P. Blount 404 Periodicals: _The Athenian Mercury_, &c. 406 INTERCHAPTER V. 407 BOOK VI. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ORTHODOXY. CHAPTER I. FROM ADDISON TO JOHNSON.