English critical essays (nineteenth century)
By: selected and edited by Edmund D. Jones.
Series: World's classics -- 206
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1947
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Poetry.; English poetry -- 19th century.; Criticism.
Notes: First published in 1916.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Wordsworth, W. Poetry and poetic diction.; title: Coleridge, S. T. Wordsworth's theory of diction. Metrical composition.; title: Blake, W. The Canterbury pilgrims.; title: Lamb, C. On the tragedies of Shakespeare...; title: Shelley, P. B. A defence of poetry.; title: Hazlitt, W.My first acquaintance with poets.; title: Keble, J. Sacred poetry.; title: Newman, J. H. Poetry with reference to Aristotle's Poetics.; title: Carlyle, T. The hero as poet. Dante; Shakespeare.; title: Hunt, J. H. L. An answer to the question: What is poetry?; title: Arnold, M. The choiceof subjects in poetry.; title: Ruskin, J. Of the pathetic fallacy.; title: Mill, J. S. Thoughts on poetry and its varieties.; title: Bagehot, W. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning...; title: Pater, W. H. Coleridge's writings.; title: Emerson, R. W. Shakespeare; or, the poet.; title: Lowell, J.R. Wordsworth.