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English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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London,
Oxford Univ. Press,
1956.
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| Series: | World's classics ;
240. |
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Table of 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.