Originally published in 1915 - Contents Include Spenser Milton Evelyn Bunyan Cowper Boswell Cabbe Wordsworth Carlyle. 'An Acute Young Critic, who Saw some of the Proofs, has asked me, with a Hint of Irony, whether Evelyn and Boswell were Puritans or Poets. Any Reader who has a Conscience about the Matter must Omit these Essays'.