PART ONE．1700-1720

Ⅰ．THE BACKGROUND

1．Social

2．The Ethos

Ⅱ．DEFOE TO 1710

Ⅲ．SWIFT TO 1709

Ⅳ．ESSAYISTS AND CONTROVERSIALISTS

1．Steele

2．Swift,Defoe,Arbuthnot

3．Addison

Ⅴ．POETRY

1．Introductory

2．Some Forms

3．Some Poets

Ⅵ．POPE TO 1725

PART TWO．1700-1740

Ⅶ．THE DRAMA

Ⅷ．THE PHILO SOPHERS

Ⅸ．CRITICS AND AE STHETICIANS

1．Critics

2．Aestheticians

Ⅹ．LETTERS,MEMOIRS,TRAVEL:HISTORIANS AND ANTIQUARIES

1．Letters,Memoirs,Travel

2．Tours and Travels

3．Historians and Antiquaries

PART THREE 1720-1740

INTRODUCTION

Ⅺ．DEFOE,1715-1731

1．The Miscellaneous Writer

2．Defoe and the Novel

Ⅻ．SWIFT,1715-1745

1．The Irish Patriot

2．Gulliver＇s Travels

3．The Final Phase．Poetry

ⅩⅢ．POETRY,1720-1740

1．Thomson

2．Scientific Verse

3．Various Trends

ⅩⅣ．POPE,1725-1744

CONCLUSION

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX