English critical essays
Subtitle: nineteenth century
By: selected and edited by Edmund D. Jones
Series: Oxford paperbacks, 252
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Criticism; History and criticism; Poetry; English poetry
Notes: Originally published, London: Worlds Classics, 1916.
Table of contents: title: Poetry and poetic diction, by W. Wordsworth.; title: Wordsworth's theory of diction, by S. T. Coleridge.; title: Metrical composition, by S. T. Coleridge.; title: The Canterbury pilgrims, by W. Blake.; title: On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation, by C. Lamb.; title: A defence of poetry, by P. B. Shelley.; title: My first acquaintance with poets, by W. Hazlitt.; title: Sacred poetry, by J. Keble.; title: Poetry with reference to Aristotle's Poetics, by J. H. Newman.; title: The hero as poet. Dante; Shakespeare, by T. Carlyle.; title: An answer to the question, what is poetry? By J. H. L. Hunt.; title: The choice of subjects in poetry, by M. Arnold.; title: Of the pathetic fallacy, by J. Ruskin.; title: Thoughts on poetry and its varieties, by J. S. Mill.; title: Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry, by W. Bagehot.; title: Coleridge's writings, by W. H. Pater.; title: Shakespeare; or, The poet, by R. W. Emerson.; title: Wordsworth, by J. R. Lowell.