English critical essays
Subtitle: twentieth century
By: selected with an introduction by Phyllis M. Jones
Series: The World's classics -- v. 405; World's classics -- 405
Publisher: Oxford university press, H. Milford
Published: 1940
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; English essays
Notes: "First published in the World's classics in 1933 and reprinted in 1935 and 1940
Table of contents: value: Introduction.-Bridges, Robert. Poetic diction in English.-Saintsbury, George. Shakespeare and the grand style.-Meynell, Alice. Dickens as a man of letters.-Bradley, A. C. The reaction against Tennyson.-Moore, George. George Eliot.-Ker, W. P. Pope.-Benson, A. C. Theodore Watts-Dunton.-Chambers, Sir E. K. Matthew Arnold.-Beerbohm, Max. Ouida.-Chapman, J. A. Wordsworth and literary criticism.-Garrod, H. W. The profession of poetry.-MacCarthy, Desmond. Robert Burton.-Forster, E. M. William Cowper, an Englishman.-Strachey, Lytton. Mandell Creighton.-Abercrombie, Lascelles. The function of poetry in the drama.-Chapman, R. W. The textual criticism of English classics.-Young, G. M. A word for Gabriel Harvey.-Williams, Charles. Robert Bridges.-Eliot, T. S. Johnson 'London' and 'Vanity'.-Murry, J. M. Pure poetry.-Dobrée, Bonamy. Thomas Hardy.-Read, Herbert. The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.-Lucas, F. L. Browning.-Woolf, Virginia. Modern fiction