The Critical Heritage gathers together a large obody of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researchers to read the material themselves.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, NOTE ON THE TEXT, PART I. CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM, PART II. LATER CRITICISM 1745-82, APPENDIX A. Pope on Versification (1706?), APPENDIX B. 'The Ballance of Poets' (1745), BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX