14. Edward Moore’s The Gamester (1753).
15. John Oldmixon’s Reflections on Dr.
Swift’s Letter to Harley
(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’s
The British Academy (1712).
16. Nevil Payne’s Fatal Jealousy (1673).
17. Nicholas Rowe’s Some Account of
the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare
(1709).
18. “Of Genius,” in The Occasional
Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719);
and Aaron Hill’s Preface
to The Creation (1720).
Fourth Year (1949-1950)
19. Susanna Centlivre’s The Busie Body (1709).
20. Lewis Theobold’s Preface to The Works of Shakespeare (1734).
21. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison,
Clarissa, and Pamela
(1754).
22. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human
Wishes (1749) and Two
Rambler papers (1750).
23. John Dryden’s His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681).
24. Pierre Nicole’s An Essay on True
and Apparent Beauty in Which from
Settled Principles is Rendered
the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting
Epigrams, translated by
J.V. Cunningham.
Fifth Year (1950-1951)
25. Thomas Baker’s The Fine Lady’s Airs (1709).
26. Charles Macklin’s The Man of the World (1792).
27. Out of print.
28. John Evelyn’s An Apologie for the
Royal Party (1659); and
A Panegyric to Charles
the Second (1661).
29. Daniel Defoe’s A Vindication of the Press (1718).
30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper’s
Letters Concerning
Taste, 3rd edition (1757),
& John Armstrong’s Miscellanies (1770).
Sixth Year (1951-1952)
31. Thomas Gray’s An Elegy Wrote in
a Country Church Yard (1751);
and The Eton College Manuscript.
32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudery’s
Preface to Ibrahim
(1674), etc.
33. Henry Gally’s A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings (1725).
34. Thomas Tyers’ A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).
35. James Roswell, Andrew Erskine, and George
Dempster. Critical
Strictures on the New Tragedy
of Elvira, Written by Mr. David
Malloch (1763).
36. Joseph Harris’s The City Bride (1696).
Seventh Year (1952-1953)
37. Thomas Morrison’s A Pindarick Ode on Painting (1767).
38. John Phillips’ A Satyr Against Hypocrites (1655).
39. Thomas Warton’s A History of English Poetry.
40. Edward Bysshe’s The Art of English Poetry (1708).
41. Bernard Mandeville’s “A Letter to Dion” (1732).
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.