Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents XIX
3. L. C P. and the Clark XXI
4. I. Poetry and Music in the Seventeenth Century 1
5. II. Milton as a Latin Poet 23
6. III. The Puritans in Old and New England 47
7. IV. Challenges to Dry dens Biographer 73
8. V. Challenges to Dry dens Editor 93
9. VI. Restoration Prose 109
10. VII. Some Aspects of Music and Literature in the Eighteeenth Century 127
11. VIII. The Ironic Tradition in Augustan Prose from Swift to Johnson 161
12. IX. Defoe s Use of Irony 189
13. X. Swift's Use of Irony 221
14. XI. Letters of Advice to Young Spinsters 245
15. XII. Ladies of Letters in the Eighteent Century 271
16. Index 293