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English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries)
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- Creator
- selected and ed. by Edmund D. Jones
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- English
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- London ; New York [etc.] : H. Milford : Oxford university press, 1930
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- viii, 460 pages ; 16 cm
- OCLC
- ocm04822369
- "First published in ... 1922."
- Sir Phillip Sidney: An apology for poetry.--Thomas Camplon: From Observations in the art of English poesy.--Samuel Daniel: A defence 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 composition.--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 poem