English literary criticism
By: with an introduction by C. E. Vaughan.
Series: The Warwick library.
Publisher: Blackie
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Criticism.; English literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: "In the following pages my aim has been to sketch the development of criticism, and particularly of critical method, in England; and to illustrate each phase of its growth by one or two samples taken from the most typical writers."--p. v.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Sir Philip Sidney: An apology for poetry.; title: John Dryden: Preface to the Fables.; title: Samuel Johnson: On the metaphysical poets.; title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: On poetic genius and poetic diction.; title: William Hazlitt: On poetry in general.; title: Charles Lamb: On the artificial comedy of the last century.; title: On Webster's 'Duchess of Malfi.'; title: On Ford's 'Broken heart.'; title: Percy Bysshe Shelley: A defence of poetry.; title: Thomas Carlyle: Goethe.; title: Walter Pater: Sandro Botticelli.