English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)
By: selected and ed. by EdmundD. Jones.
Series: The World's classics -- CCXL
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
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: SamuelDaniel: 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 theFables.; 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 composition.; 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.