Introduction: The achievement of Dryden's "Discourse on satyr"
[1.] Contexts: The pattern of formal verse satire in the Restoration and the eighteenth century
History, Horace, and Augustus Caesar: some implications for eighteenth-century satire
Masked men and satire and Pope: towards an historical basis for the eighteenth-century persona
[2.] Texts: The swelling volume: the apocalyptic satire of Rochester's Letter from Artemisia in the town to Chloe in the country
The "Allusion to Horace": Rochester's imitative mode
"Natures holy bands" in Absalom and Achitophel: fathers and sons, satire and change
The Rape of the lock and the contexts of warfare
"Such as Sir Robert would approve"?: answers to Pope's answer from Horace
The conventions of classical satire and the practice of Pope
Persius, the opposition to Walpole, and Pope
Johnson's London and Juvenal's Third satire: the country as "ironic" norm
No "mock debate": questions and answers in The vanity of human wishes
Pope, his successors, and the dissociation of satiric sensibility: an hypothesis.
