Critical essays and literary fragments
By: with an introduction by J. Churton Collins.
Contributors: Collins, John Churton, 1848-1908.
Series: An English garner; [v. 12]
Publisher: A. Constable and Co., ltd.
Published: 1903
Place of publication: Westminster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Some of the tracts have special title-pages.
A volume of Arber's "English garner" (London, 1877-90. 8 v.) rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Thomas Seccombe. The "Texts contained in the present volume are reprinted with very slight alterations."
Table of contents: title: I. Extract from Thomas Wilson's Art of rhetoric, 1554.; title: II. Sir Philip 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 of dramatic poesy, 1668.; title: VII. Extract from Thomas Ellwood's History of himself, describing his relations 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, 1711.; title: XI. Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721.; title: XII. Steele's Dedicatory epistle to Congreve, 1722.; title: XIII. Extract from Chamberlayne's Angliæ notitia, 1669.; title: XIV. Eachard's Grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion, 1670.; title: XV. Bickerstaff's Miseries of the domestic chaplain, 1710.; title: XVI. Franklin's Poor Richard improved, 1757.