English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)

Author(s)

• Jones, Edmund D.

Bibliographic Information

English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)

selected and edited by Edmund D. Jones

（The world's classics, 240）

Oxford university press, 1922

Other Title

English critical essays : XVI-XVIII century

Note

"A list of the world's classics, Oxford University Press" (16 p.) inserted

Contents of Works

• An apology for poetry / Sir Philip Sidney
• From Observations in the art of English poesy / Thomas Campion
• A defense of rhyme / Samuel Daniel
• The nature of poetry / Francis Bacon
• Extracts from Timber ; To the memory of William Shakespeare / Ben Jonson
• Preface to Samson Agonistes / John Milton
• An essay on dramatic poesy ; Preface to the Fables / John Dryden
• From The advancement and reformation of modern poetry / John Dennis
• An essay on criticism / Alexander Pope
• Chevy Chase ; Criticisms on Paradise lost ; The fairy way of writing / Joseph Addison
• Poetic diction ; Dodsley's Miscellany / Thomas Gray
• Conjectures on original compostion / Edward Young
• Heroic and Gothic manners ; Spenser and Milton ; The faerie queene / Richard Hurd
• Dryden as critic and poet ; Gray / Samuel Johnson
• Preface to Milton's minor poems / Thomas Warton

• NCID: BA13571154
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 460, 16 p.
• Size: 16 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR67
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Criticism -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Poetry
  • LCSH : English poetry -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English essays
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00232564