English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries) selected and ed. by Edmund D. Jones
Print Book, English, [1922]
H. Milford, Oxford University Press, London, [1922]
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 394 pages ; 16 cm.
9780192502407, 0192502409
1063930034
Sir Philip Sidney: An apology for poetry
Thomas Campion: From Observations in the art of English poesy
Samuel Daniel: A defense of rhyme
Francis Bacon: The nature of poetry
Ben Jonson: Extracts from Timber. To the memory of William Shakespeare
John Milton: Preface to Samson Agonistes
John Dryden: An essay on dramatic poesy. Preface to the Fables
John Dennis: From The advancement and reformation of modern poetry
Alexander Pope: An essay on criticism
Joseph Addison: Chevy Chase. Criticisms on Paradise lost. The fairy way of writing
Thomas Gray: Poetic diction. Dodsley's Miscellany
Edward Young: Conjectures on original compostion
Richard Hurd: Heroic and Gothic manners. Spenser and Milton. The faerie queene
Samuel Johnson: Dryden as critic and poet. Gray
Thomas Warton: Preface to Milton's minor poems