Prefaces and prologues to famous books
Subtitle: with introductions, notes and illustrations.
Contributors: Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.; Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Heming, John, d. 1630.; Condell, Henry, d. 1627.; Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.; Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.; Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893.; Allen, John, 1771-1843.; Spedding, James, 1808-1881.; Motte, Andrew, d. 1734.
Series: The Harvard classics : -- v. 39.; Harvard classics -- v. 39.
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son
Published: 1910
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Notes: --Preface of Fables, ancient and modern, by J. Dryden.--Preface to Joseph Andrews, by H. Fielding.--Preface to the English dictionary; Preface to Shakespeare, by S. Johnson.--Introduction to the Propylaen, by J.W. von Goethe.--Prefaces to various volumes of poems; Appendix to Lyrical ballads; Essays supplementary to preface, by W. Wordsworth.--Preface to Cromwell, by V. Hugo.--Preface to Leaves of grass, by W. Whitman.--Introduction to the History of English literature, by H.A. Taine.
Table of contents: title: Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the histories of Troy; Epilogue to Dictes and sayings of the philosophers; Prologue to Golden legend; Prologue to Caton; Epilogue to Aesop; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury tales; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur; Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos, by W. Caxton.; title: Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion, by J. Calvin, tr. by J. Allen.; title: Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies, by N. Copernicus.; title: Preface to the History of the reformation in Scotland, by J. Knox.; title: Prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie queene, by E. Spenser.; title: Preface to the History of the world, by Sir W. Raleigh.; title: Prooemium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instaturatio magna, etc., by F. Bacon, translation edited by S. Spedding.; title: Preface to the Novum organum, by F. Bacon.; title: Preface to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, by Heminge and Condell.; title: Preface to the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, by Sir Isaac Newton, tr. by A. Motte.