Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE VII
3. CONTENTS XV
4. Part I. 1700-1720
5. I. Indifference, Negation, Scepticism 3
6. II. Poets of Controversy 41
7. III. Divine Poets 98
8. IV. Middle-Classicists 155
9. V. The Beginnings of Sentimentalism 205
10. Part II. 1720-1740
11. VI. Neither Christian Nor Very Sentimental 265
12. VII. Divine Poets 282
13. VIII. Non-Sentimental Christians 315
14. IX. Sentimentalism—Mild Cases 361
15. X. Sentimentalism—Severer Cases 424
16. XI. Pope and Thomson 488
17. XII. Protestantism and Sentimentalism 535
18. Appendix I. Primary Sources 577
19. Appendix II. Secondary Sources 586
20. Index of Names 593
21. Index of Topics 601