English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Edmund D. (Edmund David), 1869-1941

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Other Title:

English Critical Essays: 19th Century

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century" by Edmund D. Jones is a collection of essays focusing on English literary criticism from the 19th century. This compilation reflects the significant evolution of critical thought during that period, particularly emphasizing the transition from Neo-classical traditions toward Romantic principles in poetry and literary expression. A central theme includes the exploration of poetry's purpose, language, and its connection to emotion and nature. The opening of this work features a preface explaining its objectives in compiling critical essays that illustrate the landscape of literary thought during the 19th century. It highlights the importance of the Romantic Movement, sparked by key events like the publication of "Lyrical Ballads," and introduces prominent figures such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The essays included aim to discuss general principles of literary criticism rather than focus on specific authors or texts, with an intention to represent critiques of poetry's language and forms. Thus, this collection serves as both an anthology of 19th-century critical thought and a commentary on the changing nature of literature itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Poetry and poetic diction, by W. Wordsworth

Wordsworth's theory of diction, by S. T. Coleridge

Metrical composition, by S. T. Coleridge

The Canterbury pilgrims, by W. Blake

On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation, by C. Lamb

A defence of poetry, by P. B. Shelley

My first acquaintance with poets, by W. Hazlitt

Sacred poetry, by J. Keble

Poetry with reference to Aristotle's Poetics, by J. H. Newman

The hero as poet. Dante; Shakespeare, by T. Carlyle

An answer to the question, what is poetry? By J. H. L. Hunt

The choice of subjects in poetry, by M. Arnold

Of the pathetic fallacy, by J. Ruskin

Thoughts on poetry and its varieties, by J. S. Mill

Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry, by W. Bagehot

Coleridge's writings, by W. H. Pater

Shakespeare; or, The poet, by R. W. Emerson

Wordsworth, by J. R. Lowell.

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Notes:

Reading ease score: 50.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.

Release date is 2010-02-15