First published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1970. This collection of essays covers the work of Milton, Dryden, Sir John Vanburgh, Defoe, Mandeville, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Byron, Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Smith Surtees, Thackeray and Maria Louise (de la) Ramee better known as Ouida.