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Chapter 15 Chaucer. By Dr. A. W. Ward. Spenser. By Dean Church. Dryden. By Prof. Saintsbury.

Chapter 16 Milton. By Mark Pattison. Goldsmith. By W. Black. Cowper. By Goldwin Smith.

Chapter 18 Wordsworth, By F. W. H. Myers. Southey. By Prof. Dowden. Landor. By Sidney Colvin.

Chapter 19 Charles Lamb. By Canon Ainger. Addison. By W. J. Courthope. Swift. By Sir Leslie Stephen, K.C.B.

Chapter 20 Scott. By R. H. Hutton. Burns. By Principal Shairp. Coleridge. By H. D. Traill.

Chapter 21 Hume. By Prof. Huxley, F.R.S. Locke. By Thos. Fowler. Burke. By John Morley.

Chapter 22 Defoe. By W. Minto. Sterne. By H. D. Traill. Hawthorne. By Henry James.

Chapter 23 Fielding. By Austin Dobson. Thackeray. By Anthony Trollope. Dickens. By Dr. A. W. Ward.

Chapter 24 Gibbon. By J. C. Morison. Carlyle. By Professor Nichol. Macaulay. By J. C. Morison.

Chapter 25 Sydney. By J. A. Symonds. De Quincey. By Prof. Masson. Sheridan. By Mrs. Oliphant.

Chapter 26 Pope. By Sir Leslie Stephen, K.C.B. Johnson. By Sir Leslie Stephen, K.C.B. Gray. By Edmund Gosse.

Chapter 27 Bacon. By Dean Church. Bunyan. By J. A. Froude. Bentley. By Sir Richard Jebb.