English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries) selectedand ed. by Edmund D. Jones.
Series: Half-title, The World's classics. CCXL
Publisher: H. Milford, Oxford university press
Published: 1922
Place of publication: London; New York (etc.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Criticism -- Great Britain.; Poetry.; English poetry -- History and criticism.; English essays.
Table of contents: value: Sir Philip Sidney, An apology for poetry.; value: Thomas Campion, From Observations in the art of English poesy.; value: Samuel Daniel, A defense of rhyme.; value: Francis Bacon, The nature of poetry.; value: Ben Jonson, Extracts from Timber. To the memory of William Shakespeare.; value: John Milton, Preface to Samson Agonistes.; value: John Dryden, An essay on dramatic poesy. Preface to the Fables.; value: John Dennis, From The advancement and reformation of modern poetry.; value: Alexander Pope, An essay on criticism.; value: Joseph Addison, Chevy Chase. Criticisms on Paradise lost. The fairy way of writing.; value: Thomas Gray, Poetic diction. Dodsley's Miscellany.; value: Edward Young, Conjectures on original compostion.; value: Richard Hurd, Heroic and Gothic manners. Spenser and Milton. The faerie queene.; value: Samuel Johnson, Dryden as critic and poet. Gray.; value: Thomas Warton, Preface to Milton's minor poems.