English critical essays, nineteenth century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Edmund D. (Edmund David)

Series:

World's classics

The world's classics, 206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

610 pages ; 16 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Oxford University Press, 1945.

Contents:

Poetry and poetic diction / William Wordsworth (1800)

Wordsworth's theory of diction / S.T. Coleridge (1817)

Metrical composition (1817)

The Canterbury pilgrims / William Blake (1809)

On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation / Charles Lamb (1811)

A defence of poetry / P.B. Shelley (1821)

My first acquaintance with poets / William Hazlitt (1823)

Sacred poetry / John Keble (1825)

Poetry with reference to Aristotle's Poetics / J.H. Newman (1829)

The hero as poet. Dante; Shakespeare / Thomas Carlyle (1840)

An answer to the question : What is poetry? / J.H.L. Hunt (1844)

The choice of subjects in poetry / Matthew Arnold (1853)

Of the pathetic fallacy / John Ruskin (1856)

Thoughts on poetry and its varieties / J.S. Mill (1833, revised 1859)

Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning, or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry / Walter Bagehot (1864)

Coleridge's writings / W.H. Pater (1866)

Shakespeare, or, The poet / R.W. Emerson (1850)

Wordsworth / J.R. Lowell (1875).

Notes:

"First published in 'The World's Classics' in 1916 and reprinted in 1919 ... 1945."

Indexed in Essay and general literature index.

OCLC:

25610465