English critical essays
Subtitle: (nineteenth century)
By: selected and edited by Edmund D. Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Edmund D.
Series: World's classics -- 206
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Poetry.; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Criticism.
Table of contents: Poetry and poetic diction / William Wordsworth; Wordsworth's theory of diction ; Metrical composition / Samuel Taylor Coleridge; The Canterbury pilgrims / William Blake; On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation / Charles Lamb; A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley; My first acquaintance with poets / William Hazlitt; Sacred poetry / John Keble; Poetry with reference to Aristotle's Poetics / John Henry Newman; The hero as poet : Dante, Shakespeare / Thomas Carlyle; (Cont'd) An answer to the question: What is poetry? / James Henry Leigh Hunt; The choice of subjects in poetry / Matthew Arnold; Of the pathetic fallacy / John Ruskin; Thoughts on poetry and its varieties / John Stuart Mill; Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning, or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry / Walter Bagehot; Coleridge's writings / Walter Horatio Pater; Shakespeare, or, The poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson; Wordsworth / James Russell Lowell.