Testimonies and Criticisms Relating to the Life and Works of John Milton / compiled by John Downing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Downing, John, compiler.

Thelwell, F. W., inscription (Milton Collection copy 2).

Stephens, John, inscriber (Milton Collection copy 2).

Curran, Stuart A., honoree (Milton Collection copies 1 & 2).

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, associated name, donor (Milton Collection copies 1 & 2) PU.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.

Milton, John.

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

297, [5] pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Testimonies and criticisms on John Milton

Place of Publication:

St. Austell [England] : Printed and Published by W. B. Luke, 1903.

Contents:

From "Memoir and Analysis of Milton's Life and Writings," by the Rev. H. Stebbing

Extract from "The Spectator"

Lectures on Poetry (Montgomery)

Tribute to Milton (Cooper)

From "Memoir of John Milton," (Montgomery)

From "Biographia Literaria," (Coleridge)

On Death of Richard Burke

From P. B. Shelley's Essays

Milton's Versification

Hazlitt on Milton

Remarks on "Samson Agonistes"

Extract (Swinburne)

Extract (Thomas de Quincey)

Definition of Poetry

Memoranda (S.T.C.)

Extract (Anne Seward)

Extract "Christian Doctrine"

Milton's Etymologies

Extract (Archbishop Trench)

Extract (Emerson)

Estimate of Milton (Fox)

Dr. Channing's Remarks on Milton's Prose and his moral qualities

Thoughts towards a new Epic

Extract Tomson's "Seasons"

Extract (Tennyson)

Extract (J.S. Mill)

Shakespeare and Milton

Extracts (Wordsworth)

Professor Shaw on "Milton"

Remarks by Henry Hallam

An Estimate of Milton

Milton, by Matthew Arnold

Extract from Lecture by T. Palgrave

A Motto to Milton Extracts

Extracts from "Tait's Magazine"

Extract from "The Progress of Poetry"

Extract (Landor)

Extracts from "Quarterly Review"

Extract from "Westminster Review," 1849

Extract from "Tait's Magazine"

Newspaper paragraph

Extract from "Fata Morgana"

Extracts (De Quincey)

Extract from Macmillan's Magazine"

Extract (James Russell Lowell)

Extract (Professor Wilson)

Extract (John Bright)

Extracts (Sara Coleridge)

Extract from "Fortnightly Review"

Extract from "Macmillan's Magazine"

Extract (Rev. Charles Kingsley)

Extract from "Daily Telegraph"

Extract (Dean Stanley)

Extracts (Walter Savage Landor)

Extract (William Francis Collier)

Extracts (A. C. Swinburne)

Extracts from Bi-Centenary discourses.

(Continued) Extract (Charles Mackay)

Extract (William Hazlitt)

Extract ( W. E. Lecky)

Extract (Macaulay)

Extract (J. C. Shairp, LL.D.)

Extract (David Masson, M.A., LL.D.)

Extract (Mark Pattison, B.D.)

Extract (Chateaubriand)

Extracts "Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature"

Extract "Temple Bar"

The Sonnet "Contemporary Review"

Extract (Matthew Arnold)

Extract "Fortnightly Review"

Extracts (S. T. Coleridge)

Lines written inside a copy of "Paradise Lost"

Extract (Thomas Cragoe)

Extract (S. T. C.)

Extract (Lord Byron)

Extract from Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson"

Extract (F. T. Palgrave)

Extract (De Quincey's Works)

Extract (Rev. F. W. Robertson, M.A.)

Extract (S. T. Coleridge)

Milton's Vallombrosa

Extract (Andrew Marvell)

Extract from "Curiosities of Literature:

Extract from Macaulay's "Essay on Milton"

Extract from "A Treatise on Christian Doctrine"

Extract from Dr. Channing's "Essay on Milton"

Extract from Dr. Johnson's "Life of Milton"

Milton in Italy

Extract (Dr. Aiken)

Extract (Wordsworth)

Vallombrosa

A Talk about Sonnets

Extract "Life of Milton" (Mitford)

Extract from "Blackwood's Magazine"

A Portrait of Mr. John Milton, Senior

Extract from "Haunts and Homes of the most eminent British Poets," (Howitt)

Extract (Professor David Masson)

Notes:

Standard half leather binding with marbled endpapers; spine has five bands decorated in gilt with red title label stamped in gilt.

Local Notes:

PR3588.T34 1903 Milton Collection copy 1: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2019. Milton Collection copy 2: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2022 is inscribed "F. W. Thelwell with best wishes from the compiler's nephew. John Stephens" and has letter from John Stephens addressed to D. Thelwell presenting him with a copy of this work attached to front free endpaper dated May 13, 1910. Also has signature of "Annabel C. Jones?" on preliminary page 1.

Other Format:

Online version: Testimonies and criticisms relating to the life and works of John Milton.

OCLC:

32754537