William Minto (1845-1893) was a Scottish literary critic and journalist. He was the author of a biography of Daniel Defoe, and contributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica biographical sketches of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Pope, Dickens, and other literary men. Contents: The Position of Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century Pope A Group of Eighteenth-Century Poets Poetry Between Pope and Cowper Decline of Poetry - The Novel The New Poetry Scottish Poetry in the Eighteenth Century Wordsworth Coleridge Southey Campbell Moore Scott Byron Novelists from Mrs. Radcliffe to Bulwer Lytton Shelley and Keats Supplement: Mr. Courthope's Biography of Pope -- The Supposed Tyranny of Pope -- The Historical Relationships of Burns Index