English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)
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English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)
(The world's classics, 240)
Oxford university press, 1922
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English critical essays : XVI-XVIII century
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"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