Critical essays of the seventeenth century.

Contributor Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939.

Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1957]

Description3 v. ; 20 cm.

Note:V.1. 1605-1650. - From The Advancement of Learning / Francis Bacon. - Preface to Sejanus / Ben Jonson. - Dedicatory Epistle of Volpone / Ben Jonson. - Preface to The Alchemist / Ben Jonson. - From Timber, or Discoveries / Ben Jonson. - Preface to The White Devil / John Webster. - Prefaces to the Translation of Homer / George Chapman. - Hypercritica / Edmund Bolton. - Of Poetry, from The Complete Gentleman / Henry Peacham. - Epistle to Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy / Michael Drayton. - Mythologies / Henry Reynolds. - Anacrisis / Sir William Alexander. - A Sessions of the Poets / Sir John Suckling. - From The Reason of Church Government / John Milton. - From An Apology for Smectymnus / John Milton. - From the treatise Of Education / John Milton. - Preface to Paradise Lost / John Milton. - Preface to Samson Agonistes.

Note:V.2. 1650-1685. - Preface to Gondibert / Sir William Davenant. - Answer to Davenant's preface to Gondibert / Thomas Hobbes. - Preface to Homer / Thomas Hobbes. - Preface to Poems / Abraham Cowley. - A Short Discourse of the English Stage / Richard Flecknoe. - Preface to Four New Plays / Sir Robert Howard. - Preface to The Great Favourite / Sir Robert Howard. - From The History of the Royal Society / Thomas Sprat. - Account of the Life and Writings of Abraham Cowley / Thomas Sprat. - Preface to The Sullen Lovers / Thomas Shadwell. - Preface to The Humorists / Thomas Shadwell. - Preface to Rapin / Thomas Rymer. - From The Tragedies of the Last Age / Thomas Rymer. - From A Short View of Tragedy / Thomas Rymer. - Preface to Theatrum Poetarum / Edward Phillips. - From An Essay concerning Preaching / Josph Glanvill. - Upon Critics who judge of Modern Plays by the Rules of the Ancients / Samuel Butler. - An Allusion to Horace / Earl of Rochester. - An Essay upon Poetry / Earl of Mulgrave. - An Essay on Translated Verse / Earl of Roscommon.

Note:V.3. 1685-1700. - Preface to Rochester's Valentinian / Robert Wolseley. - An Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning / Sir William Temple. - Of Poetry / Sir William Temple. - Essay on Dryden, from An Account of the English Dramatic Poets / Gerard Langbaine. - The Impartial Critic / John Dennis. - Vindication of Paradise Lost / Charles Gildon. - From Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning / William Wotton. - Preface to Prince Arthur / Sir Richard Blackmore. - A Satire against Wit / Sir Richard Blackmore. - Concerning Humour in Comedy / William Congreve. - From A Short View of the Immortality and Profaneness of the English Stage / Jeremy Collier. - An Essay upon Unnatural flights in Poetry / George Granville.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliography.

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