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

By: Material type: TextSeries: The World's classicsPublication details: London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press [1922]Description: viii, 394 p. 16 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 67 .J6 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 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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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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