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, 1947
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English critical essays : sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
English critical essays : XVI-XVIII century
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Reset in 1947. First published in 1922
Contents of Works
- An apology for poetry [1595] / Sir Philip Sidney
- From Observations in the art of English poesy [1602] : the first chapter, intreating of numbers in general / Thomas Campion
- A defense of rhyme [? 1603] : to Willman Herbert, earl of pembroke / Samuel Daniel
- The nature of poetry : [from The advancement of learning, book II, 1605] / Francis Bacon
- Extracts from Timber, or discoveries (1620-35) / Ben Jonson
- To the memory of my beloved, Master William Shakespeare and what he hath left us [1623] / Ben Jonson
- Preface to Samson Agonistes [1671] : of that sort of dramatic poem which is called Tragedy / John Milton
- An essay on dramatic poesy [1668] / John Dryden
- Preface to the fables [1700] / John Dryden
- From The advancement and reformation of modern poetry (chapters IV-VI) [1701] : that the ancient poets derived their greatness from the nature of their subjects / John Dennis
- An essay on criticism [1711] / Alexander Pope
- Chevy Chase : [The Spectator, Nos. 70, 74 : 1711] / Joseph Addison
- Criticisms on Paradise lost : [The Spectator, nos. 267, 273, 279, 285 : 1712] / Joseph Addison
- The fairy way of writing : [The Spectator, no. 419 : 1712.] : -mentis gratissimus error.-hor. / Joseph Addison
- Poetic diction : [from A letter to Richard West, 1742] / Thomas Gray
- Dodsley's miscellany : [from A letter to Horace Walpole, 1748] / Thomas Gray
- Conjectures on original composition : in a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison [1759] / Edward Young
- From Letters on chivalray, 1762 : heroic and gothic manners (Letter VI) / Richard Hurd
- Spenser and Milton (Letter VII) / Richard Hurd
- The Faerie Queene (Letter VIII) / Richard Hurd
- Dryden as critic and poet : [from Lives of the English poets, 1779] / Samuel Johnson
- Gray (1781) / Samuel Johnson
- Preface to Milton's minor poems (1790) / Thomas Warton
