Romantic critical essays
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Romantic critical essays
(Cambridge English prose texts)
Cambridge University Press, 1987
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offering a selection of English criticism from Wordsworth to Shelley, this work also includes pieces by Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and others. The work includes full annotations to the texts, a headnote preceding the selections and introductions to each section.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "Essay, supplementary to the preface" of 1815. Part 2 Charles Lamb (1775-1834): "On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation"
- "On the acting of Munden"
- "On the artificial comedy of the last century". Part 3 William Hazlitt (1778-1830): "Why the arts are not progressive?"
- "On Mr Kean's Iago"
- "On imitation"
- "On 'Gusto'"
- "Coriolanus"
- "On the periodical essayists"
- "On the picturesque and ideal - a fragment"
- "Mr Coleridge"
- "Byron and Wordsworth". Part 4 Leigh Hunt (1784-1859): "Poems by John Keats"
- "On the realities of imagination". Part 5 Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859): "On the knocking at the gate in 'Macbeth'"
- "On Wordsworth's poetry"
- "The poetry of Pope". Part 6 Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866): "An essay on fashionable literature"
- "The four ages of poetry". Part 7 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): "A defence of poetry".
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