| Description |
2 volumes |
| Contents |
Volume.I -- 'Of Imitation': The Scholemaster (Book II) 1570 / Roger Ascham -- From Poematum Liber 1573 / Richard Willes -- Certayne Notes of Instruction 1573 / George Gascoigne -- The Dedication to Promos and Cassandra 1578 / George Whetstone -- A Defence of Poetry 1579 & Spenser-Harvey Correspondence 1579-80 / Thomas Lodge -- Epistle Dedicatory to The Shepheards Calendar 1579 / 'E. K.' -- From the Dedication and Preface to the Translation of the Aeneid 1582 / Richard Stanyhurst -- An Apologie for Poetrie c.1583 (printed 1595) / Sir Philip Sidney -- Ane Schort Treatise conteining some Reulis and Cautelis to be Obseruit Eschewit in Scottis :oesie 1584 / King James VI. -- A Discourse of English Poetrie 1586 / WIlliam Webbe -- From The Arcadian Rhetorike 1588 / Abraham Fraunce -- I. Preface to Greene's Menaphon 1589 & II. From The Anatomic of Absurditie 1589 / Thomas Nash -- Appendix. From E. Hoby's Translation of Coignet's Politique Discourses 1586 -- Volume II. The Arte of English Poesie 1589 / George Puttenham -- A Preface, or rather a Briefe Apologie of Poetrie, prefixed to the translation of Orlando Furioso 1591 / Sir John Harington -- Preface to Sidney's Astrophel and Stella 1591 / Thomas Nash -- From Foure Letters 1529 / Garbriel Harvey -- From Strange News, or Foure Letters Confuted 1592 / Thomas Nash -- I. From Pierce's Supererogation 1593 & II. From A New Letter of Notable Contents 1593 / Gabriel Harvey -- The Excellency of the English Tongue 1596-6 / Richard Carew -- I. Preface to Seaven Bookes of the Illiades of Homere 1598 & II. Dedication, &c. of Achilles Shield 1598 / George Chapman -- From Palladis Tamis 1598 / Francis Meres -- From The Golden Grove 1600 / William Vaughan -- Observations in the Art of English Poesie 1602 / Thomas Campion -- A Defence of Ryme 1603 / Samuel Daniel -- Appendix. I. i and ii. From Every Man in his Humour iii. From Every Man out of his Humour iv. From The Poetaster & II. The Returne from Parnassus 1601 / Ben Jonson |
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Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
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Poetry. |
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Early works to 1800 |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Criticism. |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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English essays.
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English essays. |
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