English literary criticism
By: with an introd. by C.E. Vaughan
Series: The Warwick library; The Warwick library
Publisher: Blackie
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Criticism; English literature -- History and criticism
Notes: "My aim has been to sketch the development of criticism, and particularly of critical method, in England; and to illustrate each phase of its growth by one or two samples taken from the most typical writers."
Table of contents: title: An apology for poetry, by Sir P. Sidney.; title: Preface to the Fables, by J. Dryden.; title: On the metaphysical poets, by S. Johnson.; title: On poetic genius and poetic diction, by S.T. Coleridge.; title: On poetry in general, by W. Hazlitt.; title: On the artificial comedy of the last century; On Webster's Duchess of Malfi; On Ford's Broken heart; by C. Lamb.; title: A defence of poetry, by P.B. Shelley.; title: Goethe, by T. Carlyle.; title: Sandro Botticelli, by W. Pater.