Cover -- William Congreve: The Critical Heritage -- Copyright -- General Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: The Early Reception -- 1. William Congreve, Preface to Incognita, 1691 -- 2. John Dryden on the Old Batchelour, 1692 -- 3. Prefatory Poems to the Old Batchelour, 1693 -- 4. Peter Motteux in the Gentleman's Journal, 1693 -- 5. Henry Higden in the Preface to the Wary Widdow, 1693 -- 6. John Dryden in the Dedication to Examen Poeticum, 1693 -- 7. Thomas Yalden, 'to Mr. Congreve. an Epistolary Ode Occasion'd by His Late Play', 1693 -- 8. Jonathan Swift, to Mr. Congreve', 1693 -- 9. William Congreve, Epistle Dedicatory to the Double- Dealer, 1693 -- 10. John Dryden on the Double-dealer, 1693 -- 11. William Dove, to Mr. Congreve', 1693 -- 12. Joseph Addison in 'an Account of the Greatest English Poets', 1694 -- 13. Charles Hopkins in to Walter Moyle, Esq.', 1694 -- 14. Anon, in the Mourning Poets, 1695 -- 15. Edward Howard in the Proem to an Essay upon Pastoral, 1695 -- 16. William Congreve, 'concerning Humour in Comedy', 1695 -- 17. William Pittis in an Epistolary Poem to N. Tate, Esquire, 1696 -- 18. Catharine Trotter, to Mr. Congreve, on His Tragedy, the Mourning Bride', 1697 -- 19. Sir Richard Blackmore in the Preface to King Arthur, 1697 -- 20. Charles Hopkins, Dedication of Boadicea, Queen of Britain, 1697 -- 21. Anon, in the Justice of Peace, 1697 -- 22. Jeremy Collier in a Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage, 1698 -- 23. Elkanah Settle in a Defence of Dramatick Poetry, 1698 -- 24. William Congreve in Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations, 1698 -- 25. Anon, in a Letter to Mr. Congreve, 1698 -- 26. Anon, in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, 1698 -- 27. Jeremy Collier in a Defence of the Short View, 1698.

28. Anon, in Some Remarks upon Mr. Collier's Defence, 1698 -- 29. Charles Gildon in a Letter to Mr. Congreve, Occasion'd by the Death of the Countess Dowager of Manchester, 1698 -- 30. Anon, in 'a Session of the Poets', 1698 -- 31. John Oldmixon in Reflections on the Stage, 1699 -- 32. James Drake in the Ancient and Modern Stages Survey'd, 1699 -- 33. Charles Hopkins in 'an Epistle from Mr. Charles Hopkins to Mr. Yalden in Oxon.', 1699 -- 34. Charles Gildon in Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, 1699? -- 35. Sir Richard Blackmore in a Satyr Against Wit, 1699 -- 36. William Congreve, Dedication of the Way of the World, 1700 -- 37. Samuel Wesley in an Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry, 1700 -- 38. Samuel Cobb in Poetae Britannici, 1700 -- 39. Daniel Kenrick in a New Session of the Poets, Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Dryden, 1700 -- 40. Anon, in an Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, 1700 -- Part II: The Eighteenth-century Response, 1701- 93 41. Richard Steele, 'epistle to Mr. Congreve, Occasion'd by His Comedy Call'd the Way of the World', 1701 -- 41. Richard Steele, 'epistle to Mr. Congreve, Occasion'd by His Comedy Call'd the Way of the World', 1701 -- 42. Anon, in a Comparison Between the Two Stages, 1702 -- 43. Anon, in the Tryal of Skill, 1704 -- 44. Richard Steele on the Old Batchelour and 'doris', 1709-13 -- 45. John Dennis in Remarks upon Mr. Pope's Translation of Homer, 1717 -- 46. Richardson Pack in 'of Study', 1719 -- 47. Giles Jacob in the Poetical Register, 1719 -- 48. Lady mary wortley montagu,' to the memory of mr. congreve', 1729 -- 49. Jonathan Swift in a Letter to Viscount Bolingbroke and Alexander Pope, 1729 -- 50. David Mallet, 'a Poem to the Memory of Mr. Congreve', 1729 -- 51. Anon, in an Epistle to Lord Viscount Cobham, 1730 -- 52. Alexander Pope, Miscellaneous Comments.

53. Francois-marie Arouet De Voltaire in Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1733 -- 54. William Popple in the Prompter, 1735 -- 55. Anon, in the Daily Gazetteer, 1737 -- 56. Henry Fielding in the Champion, 1739 -- 57. Samuel Foote in the Roman and English Comedy Con-sider'd and Compar'd, 1747 -- 58. Edmund Burke in the Reformer, 1748 -- 59. William Melmoth on Congreve's Translations of Homer, 1750 -- 60. John Campbell and Andrew Kippis in Biographia Britannica, 1750 and 1789 -- 61. Joseph Warton in the Adventurer, 1754 -- 62. Arthur Murphy in the Gray's Inn Journal, 1754 -- 63. Arthur Murphy (?), Three Reviews in the London Chronicle, 1757-8 -- 64. Charles Churchill I N the Rosciad, 1761 -- 65. Arthur Murphy in 'an Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, Esq -- ', 1762 -- 66. Henry Home, Lord Kames in Elements of Criticism, 1762-3 -- 67. Samuel Johnson in the Life of Samuel Johnson, L.l.d., by James Boswell, 1769 -- 68. Francis Gentleman in the Dramatic Censor, 1770 -- 69. Anon. , Review of the Way of the World in the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 1775 -- 70. William Mason in 'memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Gray', 1775 -- 71. Horace Walpole in 'thoughts on Comedy', 1775-6 -- 72. Anon., Review of the Way of the World in the Morning Chronicle, 1776 -- 73. Fanny Burney in Evelina, 1778 -- 74. Samuel Johnson, 'congreve', 1781 -- 75. Hugh Blair in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1783 -- 76. Thomas Da Vies in Dramatic Miscellanies, 1784 -- 77. Anon., Review of the Way of the World in the Public Advertiser, 1784 -- 78. Charles Este (?), Reviews of Love for Love and the Mourning Bride in the World, 1787 -- 79. 'censor Dramaticus' in the Thespian Magazine, 1792 -- Part III: The nineteenth century and after 1802-1913 -- 80. Anon., Reviews of the Double-dealer and the Mourning Bride in the Monthly Mirror, 1802-7.

81. Anon., 'on the Character of Congreve as a Writer of Comedy', 1804 -- 82. Elizabeth Inchbald on Love for Love, 1808 -- 83. William Hazlitt on Congreve, 1816-19 -- 84. Richard Cumberland in the British Drama, 1817 -- 85. George Gordon, Lord Byron in His Letters to John Murray, 1820-1 -- 86. Charles Lamb in the London Magazine, 1822 -- 87. James Boaden on Congreve, 1827-31 -- 88. Hartley Coleridge in Biographia Borealis, with the Annotations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833 -- 89. Leigh Hunt in the Introduction to the Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, 1840 -- 90. Thomas Babington Macaulay in 'comic Dramatists of the Restoration', 1841 -- 91. Reviews of Love for Love and the Way of the World in the Times, 1842 -- 92. William Makepeace Thackeray I N the English Humour-ists of the Eighteenth Century, 1851 -- 93. Charles Cowden Clarke in 'congreve and Wycherley', 1871 -- 94. George Meredith in 'on the Idea of Comedy, and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit', 1877 -- 95. Algernon Charles Swinburne, ' Congreve ' 1877 -- 96. Oswald Crawfurd in English Comic Dramatists, 1883 -- 97. Edmund Gosse, in the Life of William Congreve, 1888 -- 98. W.e. Henley Reviews Edmund Gosse's William Congreve, 1888 -- 99. Walter Raleigh in the English Novel, 1894 -- 100. G.s. Street in the Introduction to the Comedies of William Congreve, 1895 -- 101. Sir Leslie Stephen in English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century, 1904 -- 102. A.b. Walkley, Review of the Way of the World in the Times Literary Supplement, 1904 -- 103. William Archer in the Introduction to William Congreve, 1912 -- 104. Charles Whibley in the Cambridge History of English Literature, 1912 -- 105. John Palmer in the Comedy of Manners, 1913 -- Index.