Essays on the eighteenth century
Subtitle: presented to David Nichol Smith in honour of his seventieth birthday.
Publisher: Russell & Russell
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962.; English literature -- 18th century.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Addison, by C.S. Lewis.; title: The conciseness of Swift, by H. Davis.; title: Deane Swift, Hawkesworth, and The journal to Stella, by H. Williams.; title: Pope at work, by G. Sherburn.; title: The inspiration of Pope's poetry, by J. Butt.; title: "Where once stood their plain homely dwelling," by C. Baker.; title: Some aspects of eighteenth-century prose, by J. Sutherland.; title: Note on the composition of Gray's Elegy, by H.W. Garrod.; title: John Langhorne, by H. Macdonald.; title: Notes on some lesser poets of the eighteenth century, by W.L. Renwick.; title: The formal parts of Johnson's letters, by R.W. Chapman.; title: Mrs. Piozzi's letters, by J.L. Clifford.; title: The power of memory in Boswell and Scott, by F.A. Pottle.; title: Robert Burns, by R. Dewar.; title: Fanny Burney's novels, by Lord D. Cecil.; title: Elegant extracts, by E. Blunden.; title: "The old Cumberland begger" and the Wordsworthian unities, by H.V.D. Dyson.; title: Matthew Arnold and eighteenth-century poetry, by G. Tillotson.; title: A list of writings of David Nichol Smith, 1896-1945, compiled by F.P. Wilson (p. [274]-283); title: Index, compiled by A. Tillotson.