Selected prose
By: edited by Maynard Mack and William Frost
Series: English masterpieces -- v. 8; English masterpieces -- v. 8.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: English prose literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-466).
Table of contents: title: The morte d'Arthur Book XXI [The passing of Arthur, Guinevere, Launcelot]/Sir Thomas Malory; title: From An apologie for poetrie/Sir Philip Sidney; title: Essays or counsels; title: civil and moral Of truth ; Of adversity ; Of marriage and single life ; Of great place ; Of studies) From The new Atlantis [A description of Solomon's house]; title: From Hydriotaphia: urn burial, chapter V/Sir Thomas Browne; title: From The diary [The week of the great fire]/Samuel Pepys; title: The pilgrim's progress from part I [I. Christian's departure ; 2. The fight with Apollyon ; 3. Vanity fair ; 4. Doubting castle ; 5. The celestial city]/John Bunyan; title: From The preface to the fables [Chaucer]/John Dryden; title: A true relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal/Daniel Defoe; title: The spectator (1. The spectator introduces himself to the reader ; 2. The spectator club ; 13. Signor Nicolini and the lions ; 37. A lady's library ; 62. True and false wit ;112. Sunday with Sir Roger ; 267. A consideration of Milton's Paradise lost ; 275. Dissection of a Beau's head ; 281. Dissection of a Coquette's heart ;323. A lady's diary/Joseph Addison and Richard Steele; title: To the right honorable the Earl of Chesterfield ; Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia [The business of the poet] ; from The preface to Shakespeare ; from The life of Cowley [Metaphysical poetry] ; From The life of Milton [On Lycidas]/Samuel Jonnson; title: From Life of Johnson ; From London Journal/James Boswell; title: Preface to Lyrical Ballads/William Wordsworth; title: Biographia literaria chapter XIV [On Wordworth's theory] ; From chapter XVII [What is poetry?]/Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: From Character of Shakespeare's plays: Lear ; Falstaff/William Hazlitt; title: Dream-children: a reverie ; Mrs. Battle's opinions on whist/Charles Lamb; title: Biography ; From the French revolution [Charlotte Corday] ; From On heroes, hero-worship, and the Heroic in History [Johnson and Burns]/Thomas Carlyle; title: The idea of a University ; From Discourses V, VI, VII [Liberal education]/John Henry Newman; title: Chapter I On liberty/John Stuart Mill; title: Modern painters volume III, chapter XII, Of the pathetic fallacy ; From Unto this last ; Essay I, The roots of honor/John Ruskin; title: Culture and anarchy ; From chapter IV, Hebraism and hellenism ; The study of poetry/Matthew Arnold; title: Studies in History in the Renaissance ; conclusion [The ecstatic moment]/Walter Pater; title: Introductory remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy/G.K. Chesterton; title: Modern fiction/Virginia Woolf; title: How shall I word it?/Max Beerbohm; title: Traditon and the Individual Talent/T.S. Eliot; title: Comfort/Aldous Huxley.