WOEKS BY DAVID MA880N, M.A. 



PEOFESSOE OF ENGLISH 1ITKEATITEE IN TJNITEBSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. 



LIFE OF JOHN MILTON. 



Narrated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History 

 of his time. Vol. 1. 8vo. with Portraits, 18s. 



'Mr. Masspn's Life of Milton has many rtfrling merits . . . his industry is immense : his 

 zeal unflagging ; his special knowledge of Milton's life and times extraordinary. . . . With 

 a zeal and industry which we cannot sufficiently commend, he has not only availed himself of 

 the biographical stores collected by his predecessors, but imparted to them an aspect of novelty 

 by his skilful re-arrangement.' EDINBURGH REVIEW. 



BRITISH NOVELISTS AND THEIR STYLES; 



Being a critical sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. Crown 8vo. 

 cloth, 7s. 6d. 



'A work eminently calculated to win popularity, both by the soundness of its doctrine and 

 the skill of its art.'-TnK PRESS. 



ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL. 



Chiefly on English Poets. By DAVID MASSON. 8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d. 



CONTENTS : 



I. SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE. 

 II. MILTON'S YOUTH. 



III. THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S. 



IV. DRYDEN, AND THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION. 

 V. DEAN SWIFT. 



VI. CHATTERTON: A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770. 

 VII. WORDSWORTH. 



VIII. SCOTTISH INFLUENCE ON BRITISH LITERATURE. 

 IX. THEORIES OF POETRY, 

 X. PROSE AND VERSE : DE QUINCEY. 



' Mr. Masson has succeeded in producing a series of criticisms in relation to creative litera- 

 ture which are satisfactory as well as subtile which are not only ingenious, but which possess 

 the rarer recommendation of being usually just.' THE TIMES. 

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