English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries) selected and ed. by Edmund D. Jones.

Jones, Edmund David,

English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries) selected and ed. by Edmund D. Jones. - London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press [1922] - viii, 394 p. 16 cm. - The World's classics. CCXL .

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 composition.--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.

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Criticism--Great Britain.
Poetry.
English poetry--History and criticism.
English essays.

PR 67 / .J6 1922