English critical essays
Subtitle: (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)
By: selected and ed. by Edmund D. Jones
Series: The world's classics -- 240
Publisher: H. Milford; Oxford university press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Criticism; Poetry; English poetry; History and criticism; English essays
Table of contents: title: Sir Phillip Sidney: An apology for poetry.; title: Thomas Campion: From Observations in the art of English poesy.; title: Samuel Daniel: A defense of rhyme.; title: Francis Bacon: The nature of poetry.; title: Ben Jonson: Extracts from Timber. To the memory of William Shakespeare.; title: John Milton: Preface to Samson Agonistes.; title: John Dryden: An essay on dramatic poesy. Preface to the Fables.; title: John Dennis: From The advancement and reformation of modern poetry.; title: Alexander Pope: An essay on criticism.; title: Joseph Addison: Chevy Chase. Criticisms on Paradise lost. The fairy way of writing.; title: Thomas Gray: Poetic diction. Dodsley's Miscellany.; title: Edward Young: Conjectures on original composition.; title: Richard Hurd: Heroic and Gothic manners. Spenser and Milton. The faerie queene.; title: Samuel Johnson: Dryden as critic and poet. Gray.; title: Thomas Warton: preface to Milton's minor poems.