English Critical Essays, Nineteenth Century

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Editor

Jones, Edmund D. (Edmund David), 1869-1941

Title

English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century

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Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism

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eBook-No.

31283

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31283

Release Date

February 15, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The World’s Classics
2. 2.CCVI ENGLISH CRITICAL ESSAYS NINETEENTH CENTURY
3. 3.ENGLISH CRITICAL ESSAYS NINETEENTH CENTURY
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.WILLIAM WORDSWORTH — 1770-1850 — POETRY AND POETIC DICTION — [Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads , 1800] — APPENDIX — ON POETIC DICTION — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE — 1772-1834 — WORDSWORTH’S THEORY OF DICTION — [ Biographia Literaria , chap. xvii, 1817] — METRICAL COMPOSITION — [ Biographia Literaria , chap. xviii, 1817] — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.WILLIAM BLAKE — 1757-1827 — THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS (1809) — Sir Geffrey Chaucer and the Nine-and-twenty Pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury [6] — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHARLES LAMB — 1775-1834 — ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR FITNESS FOR STAGE REPRESENTATION (1811) — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY — 1792-1822 — A DEFENCE OF POETRY (1821) — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.WILLIAM HAZLITT — 1778-1830 — MY FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH POETS (1823) — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.JOHN KEBLE — 1792-1866 — SACRED POETRY (1825) — The Star in the East; with other Poems. By Josiah Conder. London. 1824. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.JOHN HENRY NEWMAN — 1801-1890 — POETRY With Reference to Aristotle’s Poetics (1829). — The Theatre of the Greeks; or the History, Literature, and Criticism of the Grecian Drama. With an original Treatise on the Principal Tragic and Comic Metres. Second Edition. Cambridge. 1827. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.THOMAS CARLYLE — 1795-1881 — THE HERO AS POET. DANTE; SHAKESPEARE (1840)
15. 15.JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT — 1784-1859 — AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION WHAT IS POETRY? (1844) — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.MATTHEW ARNOLD — 1822-1888 — THE CHOICE OF SUBJECTS IN POETRY — [Preface to ‘Poems’, 1853] — ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION — (1854)
17. 17.JOHN RUSKIN — 1819-1900 — OF THE PATHETIC FALLACY — [ Modern Painters , vol. iii, pt. 4, 1856] — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.JOHN STUART MILL — 1806-1873 — THOUGHTS ON POETRY AND ITS VARIETIES (1859) — I — II — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.WALTER BAGEHOT — 1826-1877 — WORDSWORTH, TENNYSON, AND BROWNING OR PURE, ORNATE, AND GROTESQUE ART IN ENGLISH POETRY (1864) — Enoch Arden, &c. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. Dramatis Personae. By Robert Browning. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.WALTER HORATIO PATER — 1839-1894 — COLERIDGE’S WRITINGS (1866) — Conversations, Letters, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge. Edited by Thomas Allsop . London. 1864. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.RALPH WALDO EMERSON — 1803-1882 — SHAKESPEARE; OR, THE POET. 1850.
22. 22.JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL — 1819-1891 — WORDSWORTH (1875) — FOOTNOTES:

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