English critical essays
Subtitle: (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)
By: selected and ed. by EdmundD. Jones.
Series: The world's classics, 240
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1922
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Criticism.; Poetry.; English poetry -- History and criticism.; English essays.
Notes: "First published in The World's Classics in 1922, ... reset in 1947."
Table of contents: value: Sidney, P.  An apology for poetry.; value: Campion, T.  From observations in the art of English poesy.; value: Daniel, S.  A defence of rhyme.; value: Bacon, F.  The nature of poetry.; value: Jonson, B.  Extracts from Timber.  To the memory of William Shakespeare.; value: Milton, J.  Preface to Samson Agonistes.; value: Dryden, J.  An essay of dramatic poesy.  Preface to the Fables.; value: Dennis, J.  From the Advancement and reformation of modern poetry.; value: Pope, A.  An essay on criticism.; value: Addison, J. Chevy Chase.  Criticisms on Paradise Lost.  The Fairy way of writing.; value: Gray, T. Poetic diction.  Podsley's miscellany.; value: Young, E.  Conjectures on original composition.; value: Hurd, R.  Heroic and Gothic manners.  Spenser and Milton.  The Faerie Queene.; value: Johnson, S.  Dryden as critic and poet.  Gray.; value: Warton, T.  Preface to Milton's minor poems.