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English critical essays : (sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) / selected and edited by Edmund D. Jones. - Oxford University Press, 1969. - viii, 394 p. ; 21 cm. - The World's Classics ; 240 .

Originally published, London: Worlds Classics, 1916.

Poetry and poetic diction, by W. Wordsworth.--Wordsworth's theory of diction, by S. T. Coleridge.--Metrical composition, by S. T. Coleridge.--The Canterbury pilgrims, by W. Blake.--On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation, by C. Lamb.--A defence of poetry, by P. B. Shelley.--My first acquaintance with poets, by W. Hazlitt.--Sacred poetry, by J. Keble.--Poetry with reference to Aristotle's Poetics, by J. H. Newman.--The hero as poet. Dante; Shakespeare, by T. Carlyle.--An answer to the question, what is poetry? By J. H. L. Hunt.--The choice of subjects in poetry, by M. Arnold.--Of the pathetic fallacy, by J. Ruskin.--Thoughts on poetry and its varieties, by J. S. Mill.--Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry, by W. Bagehot.--Coleridge's writings, by W. H. Pater.--Shakespeare; or, The poet, by R. W. Emerson.--Wordsworth, by J. R. Lowell.

LCCN: 72026666

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Poetry.
English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Criticism.

Subjects--Index Terms: ინგლისური ლიტერატურა ინგლისური პოეზია - მე-16, მე-17, მე-18 სს. - კრიტიკა და ისტორია ინგლისური კრიტიკული ესეები

LC Class. No.: PR503 / .J6 1971

Dewey Class. No.: 821/.009

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 821.111-95