Augustan Critical Writing

Name: Augustan Critical Writing
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ISBN: 9780140433739

ISBN-10: 0140433732

ISBN-13: 9780140433739

Edition: 1997

Authors: David Womersley, David Womersley

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This collection of 18th century writing places the highly politicised criticism of the time into its proper context. It casts new light on 'politicised poetics' and resurrects the major works of this Whig tradition.

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction


Further Reading


A Note on the Texts



Nationalism and the Stage, 1664-1671


A Short Discourse of the English Stage (1664)



'Preface' to Four New Plays (1665)



Of Dramatick Poesie, An Essay (1668)



'Preface' to The Great Favourite (1668)



'Preface' to The Humorists (1671)




Poetical Correctness, 1682-1701


An Essay Upon Poetry (1682)


An Essay On Translated Verse (1685)


'Preface' to the Second Part of Waller's Poems (1690)



Concerning Unnatural Flights in Poetry (1701)



Criticism and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1704-1711


Selections from The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (1704)



Advice to the Poets: A Poem (1706)



A Discourse on Criticism and the Liberty of Writing (1707)



An Essay on Criticism (1711)



Reflections ... Upon ... An Essay Upon Criticism (1711)




Introducing Shakespeare, 1725-1744


'Preface' to The Works of Shakespear (1725)



'Preface' to The Works of Shakespeare (1733/1740)



'Preface' to The Works of Shakespear (1744)




Editing Milton, 1732-1734


'Preface' to Milton's Paradise Lost. A New Edition (1732)



Milton Restor'd and Bentley Depos'd (1732)


Of Verbal Criticism (1733)



Selections from Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost (1734)



Notes


Biographica