Critical essays and literary fragments
By: with an introd. by J. Churton Collns.
Contributors: Arber, Edward, 1836-1912, ed.; Collins, John Churton, 1848-1908.
Series: An English garner,; [v. 12]
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Published: 1903
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: A volume of Arber's "English garner" (London, 1877-90.  8 vols.) rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Thomas Seccombe.  "The texts contained in the present volume are reprinted with very slight alterations."
Some of the tracts have special t.-p.
Table of contents: title: I. Extracts from Thomas Wilson's Art of rhetoric, 1554.; title: II. Sir Phillip Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert, 1580.; title: III. Extract from Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia, 1598.; title: IV. Dryden's Dedicatory epistle to The rival ladies, 1664.; title: V. Sir Robert Howard's Preface to four new plays, 1665.; title: VI. Dryden's Essay on dramatic poetry, 1668.; title: VII. Extract from Thomas Ellwood's History of himself, describing his relatins with Milton, 1713.; title: VIII. Bishop Copleston's advice to a young reviewer, 1807.; title: IX. The Bickerstaff and Partridge tracts, 1708.; title: X. Gay's Present state of wit, 17ll.; title: XI. Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721.; title: XII. Steele's Dedicatory epistle to Congreve, 1722.; title: XIII. Extracts from Chamberlayne's Angliæ notitia, 1669.; title: XIV. Eachard's Grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy and of religion, 1670.; title: XV. Bickerstaff's Miseries of the domestic chaplain, 1710.; title: XVI. Franklin's Poor Richard improved, 1757.