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English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries) / selected and ed. by Edmund D. Jones.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection PR67 .J6 1922
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World's classics ; 240.
- The World's classics ; 240
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism--Great Britain.
- Criticism.
- Great Britain.
- Poetry.
- English poetry--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- English essays.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 460 pages ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, [1922]
- Contents:
- Sir Philip Sidney : an apology for poetry
- Thomas Campion : from Observations in the art of English poesy
- Samuel Daniel : a defense of rhyme
- Francis Bacon : the nature of poetry
- Ben Jonson : extracts from Timber. To the memory of William Shakespeare
- John Milton : preface to Samson Agonistes
- John Dryden : an essay on dramatic poesy. Preface to the Fables
- John Dennis : from The advancement and reformation of modern poetry
- Alexander Pope : an essay on criticism
- Joseph Addison : Chevy Chase. Criticisms on Paradise lost. The fairy way of writing
- Thomas Gray : poetic diction. Dodsley's Miscellany
- Edward Young : conjectures on original compostion
- Richard Hurd : heroic and Gothic manners. Spenser and Milton. The faerie queene
- Samuel Johnson : Dryden as critic and poet. Gray
- Thomas Warton : preface to Milton's minor poems.
- OCLC:
- 5847432
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