CONTENTS -- Jean Chapelain: HIS OPINION OF THE POEM ADONE (1623) -- Jean Chapelain: ON THE READING OF THE OLD ROMANCES -- Jean-François Sarasin: DISCOURSE ON TRAGEDY (1639) -- Georges de Scudéry: PREFACE TO ALARIC, OR ROME DEFEATED (1654) -- François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac: SELECTIONS FROM THE WHOLE ART OF THE STAGE (1657) -- Pierre Corneille: OF THE THREE UNITIES (1660) -- Charles de Saint-Evremond: SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF M. DE SAINT-EVREMOND -- Pierre-Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches: SELECTIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL OF ROMANCES (1670) -- Dominique Bouhours: THE BEL ESPRIT FROM THE CONVERSATIONS OF ARISTO AND EUGENE (1671) -- Dominique Bouhours: THE JE NE SAIS QUOI FROM THE CONVERSATIONS OF ARISTO AND EUGENE (1671) -- Dominique Bouhours: SELECTIONS FROM THE ART OF CRITICISM (1687) -- René Rapin: REFLECTIONS ON ARISTOTLE'S TREATISE OF POESY IN GENERAL (1674) -- René Rapin: REFLECTIONS ON ARISTOTLE'S BOOK OF POESY IN PARTICULAR (1674) -- René Le Bossu: SELECTIONS FROM TREATISE OF THE EPICK POEM (1675) -- Jean de La Bruyére: OF POLITE LEARNING FROM CHARACTERS (1687) -- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle: OF PASTORALS (1688) -- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle: A DIGRESSION ON THE ANCIENTS AND THE MODERNS (1688) -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.