Table of Contents -- Introduction -- When Was Neoclassicism? -- Erminia in Minneapolis -- Chaucer in Dryden's Fables -- Shaftesbury and the Age of Sensibility -- Addison on Ornament and Poetic Style -- The Watch of Judgment: Relativism and An Essay on Criticism -- Sermo or Satire: Pope's Definition of His Art -- The Cistern and the Fountain: Art and Reality in Pope and Gray -- Thomson's Poetry of Space and Time -- "The Reach of Art" in Augustan Poetic Theory -- Philosophical Language and the Theory of Beauty in the Eighteenth Century -- Hume's "Of Criticism" -- William Warburton as "New Critic" -- The Naked Science of Language, 1747-1786 -- Imlac and the Business of a Poet -- The Comic Syntax of Tristram Shandy -- Reynolds and the Art of Characterization -- Gainsborough's "Prospect, Animated Prospect" -- The Preface to Lyrical Ballads: A Revolution in Dispute -- A List of Books, Articles, and Reviews Published -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.