| Description |
xxvii, 410 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
The modern student's library
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Modern student's library.
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| Contents |
Preface to the Lyrical ballads (1800) ; Letter to John Wilson (1802) ; Preface to Poems of 1815 (1815) / Wordsworth -- Advice to a young reviewer (1807) / Copleston -- Scott's :Lady of the lake" (1810) ; Wordsworth's "Excursion" (1814) / Jeffrey -- Miss Austen's novels (1815) ; Dialogue with Captain Clutterbuck (1822) / Scott -- Imagination and fancy ; "Lyrical ballads" and the definition of poetry (1817) ; Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction (1817) ; Shakespeare (Shakespeare's judgment equal to his genius; The characteristics of Shakespeare's dramas; Hamlet; Macbeth) (1818) / Coleridge -- Keats's "Endymion" (1818) / Croker -- Cockney school of poetry: Keats (1818) / Lockhart -- On the tragedies of Shakespeare (1812) ; Iago and Malvolio (1822) ; On the artificial comedy of the last century (1822) ; Sanity of true genius (1826) / Lamb -- Characters of Shakespeare (Hamlet; Macbeth; Falstaff) (1817) ; On poetry in general (1818) ; Sir Walter Scott, Racine, and Shakespeare (1826) / Hazlitt -- Letter to John Murray, Esq., on Bowle's strictures on Pope (1821) / Byron -- A defense of poetry (1812; 1840) / Shelley -- Poetry, with reference to Aristotle's Poetics (1829) / Newman -- On the knocking at the gate in "Macbeth" (1823) ; Wordsworth's poetry (1845) ; Literature of knowledge and literature of power (1848) / De Quincey -- Doctrine of "correctness" (1831) ; Comedy of the Restoration (1841) ; Caricature and realism (1843) / Macaulay -- Spenser and his critics (1834) / Wilson -- What is poetry? (1844) / Hunt. |
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Criticism.
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Criticism. |
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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