Sir Richard Steele--Periodicals--The Crisis--His Last Days--Jonathan Swift: Poems--The Tale of a Tub--Battle of the Books--Pamphlets--M. B. Drapier--Gulliver's Travels--Stella and Vanessa--His Character and Death 264 CHAPTER XXVII. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN FICTION. The New Age--Daniel Defoe--Robinson Crusoe--Richardson--Pamela, and Other Novels--Fielding--Joseph Andrews--Tom Jones--Its Moral--Smollett--Roderick Random--Peregrine Pickle 280 CHAPTER XXVIII. STERNE, GOLDSMITH, AND MACKENZIE. The Subjective School--Sterne: Sermons--Tristram Shandy--Sentimental Journey--Oliver Goldsmith--Poems: The Vicar--Histories, and Other Works--Mackenzie--The Man of Feeling 296 CHAPTER XXIX. THE HISTORICAL TRIAD IN THE SCEPTICAL AGE. The Sceptical Age--David Hume--History of England--Metaphysics--Essay on Miracles--Robertson--Histories--Gibbon--The Decline and Fall 309 CHAPTER XXX. SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS TIMES. Early Life and Career--London--Rambler and Idler--The Dictionary--Other Works--Lives of the Poets--Person and Character--Style--Junius 324 CHAPTER XXXI. THE LITERARY FORGERS IN THE ANTIQUARIAN AGE. The Eighteenth Century--James Macpherson--Ossian--Thomas Chatterton--His Poems--The Verdict--Suicide--The Cause 334 CHAPTER XXXII. POETRY OF THE TRANSITION SCHOOL. The Transition Period--James Thomson--The Seasons--The Castle of Indolence--Mark Akenside--Pleasures of the Imagination--Thomas Gray--The Elegy. The Bard--William Cowper--The Task--Translation of Homer--Other Writers 347 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LATER DRAMA. The Progress of the Drama--Garrick--Foote--Cumberland--Sheridan--George Colman--George Colman, the Younger--Other Dramatists and Humorists--Other Writers on Various Subjects 360 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: SCOTT. Walter Scott--Translations and Minstrelsy--The Lay of the Last Minstrel--Other Poems--The Waverley Novels--Particular Mention--Pecuniary Troubles--His Manly Purpose--Powers Overtasked--Fruitless Journey--Return and Death--His Fame 371 CHAPTER XXXV. THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY: BYRON AND MOORE. Early Life of Byron--Childe Harold and Eastern Tales--Unhappy Marriage--Philhellenism and Death--Estimate of his Poetry--Thomas Moore--Anacreon--Later Fortunes--Lalla Rookh--His Diary--His Rank as Poet 384 CHAPTER XXXVI. THE NEW ROMANTIC POETRY (CONTINUED). Robert Burns--His Poems--His Career--George Crabbe--Thomas Campbell--Samuel Rogers--P. B. Shelley--John Keats--Other Writers 397 CHAPTER XXXVII. WORDSWORTH, AND THE LAKE SCHOOL. The New School--William Wordsworth--Poetical Canons--The Excursion and Sonnets--An Estimate--Robert Southey--His Writings--Historical Value--S. T. Coleridge--Early Life--His Helplessness--Hartley and H. N. Coleridge 414 CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE REACTION IN POETRY.