Classics of English Criticism Eleven volumes. Crown 8vo (73 × 51⁄2), blue cloth. With Introductions and Notes. The first seven volumes together form a complete corpus of English literary criticism from Ascham's Scholemaster to the death of Dryden; the texts (see below) are taken from the originals and carefully collated. For other works of historical importance see under Oxford Miscellany, p. 174, which contains much of the contemporary criticism of Romantic literature; and the Index under the names of Hazlitt, Lamb, &c. Elizabethan Critical Essays, by G. GREGORY SMITH. 16s. net. CONTENTS : Vol. I, pp. xcii, Introduction + 432 ROGER ASCHAM; Of Imitation, from The Scholemaster, 1570. 1904. Two volumes. GEORGE WHETSTONE: Dedication to Promos and Cassandra, 1578. THOMAS LODGE: A Defence of Poetry, 1579. Bibliographical List, 1577–87. 'E. K.' Epistle Dedicatory to The Shepheards Calendar, 1579. RICHARD STANYHUŘST: from the Translation of the Aeneid, 1582. Sir PHILIP SIDNEY : An Apologie for Poetrie. Written c. 1583. KING JAMES VI: Ane Schort Treatise, 1584. WILLIAM WEBBE: A Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586. ABRAHAM FRAUNCE: from The Arcadian Rhetoric, 1588. THOMAS NASH: Preface to Menaphon; Anatomie of Absurditie, 1589. Vol. II, pp. iv +510 PUTTENHAM: The Arte of English Poesie, 1589. Sir JOHN HARINGTON: A Preface or Briefe Apologie of Poetrie, 1591. GABRIEL HARVEY: from Foure Letters, 1592; from Pierce's Supererogation, 1593; from a New Letter of Notable Contents, 1593. THOMAS NASH: from Strange Newes, 1592. RICHARD CAREW: The Excellency of the English Tongue, 1595-96 (?). GEORGE CHAPMAN: Preface to Seaven Bookes of the Iliades of Homere; Dedication, &c. of Achilles Shield, 1598. FRANCIS MERES: from Palladis Tamia, 1598. WILLIAM VAUGHAN : from The Golden Grove, 1600. THOMAS CAMPION: Observations, 1602. SAMUEL DANIEL: A Defence of Ryme, 1603. At the Clarendon Press. Seventeenth Century Critical Essays. By J. E. SPINGARN. Three volumes. (Vol. III contains the Index.) 1908-9. Each 7s. net. CONTENTS:— Vol. I, 1908, pp. cvi+256. Introduction, pp. i-cvi. Extracts from BACON, BEN JONSON, WEBSTER and GEORGE CHAPMAN; EDMUND BOLTON'S Hypercritica; PEACHAM'S Of Poetry; DRAYTON'S Epistle of Poets and Poesy; HENRY REYNOLDS'S Mythomystes; Sir WILLIAM ALEXANDER'S Anacrisis; SUCKLING'S Session of the Poets; extracts from MILTON and the Conversations of JONSON and DRUMMOND of Hawthornden. Editorial Notes. Vol. II, 1908, pp. 366. Prefaces, &c. of DAVENANT, HOBBES, and COWLEY ; FLECKNOE'S Short Discourse; Prefaces, &c., of SPRAT, SHADWELL, RYMER, PHILLIPS, GLANVILL, SAMUEL BUTLER, and Earl of ROCHESTER; the Earl of MULGRAVE'S Essay upon Poetry; the Earl of ROSCOMMON'S Essay on Translated Verse; Letters of JOHN EVELYN. Editorial notes. Vol. III, 1909, pp. 376. WOLSELEY'S Preface to Rochester's Valentinian; Sir W. TEMPLE'S Essays upon Learning and Poetry; LANGBAINE'S Essay on Dryden ; DENNIS'S The Imperial Critic; GILDON'S Vindication of Paradise Lost; extracts from WOTTON'S Reflections; Sir RICHARD BLACKMORE'S Preface to Prince Arthur and A Satire against Wit; CONGREVE'S Humour in Comedy; JEREMY COLLIER'S Short View; GEORGE GRANVILLE'S Essay. Editorial Notes. The work is completed by a large bibliography and a very full Index. At the Clarendon Press. Dryden's Essays, edited by W. P. KER. 1900. Two volumes. 15s. net. Vol. I, pp. lxxii+324. Introduction, pp. xiii-lxxi; the Essay Of Dramatic Poesy and its Defence; Prefaces, Dedications, &c., 1664-85. Editorial notes. Vol. II, pp. 324. Discourse concerning Satire. Preface to the Fables and other Prefaces and Dedications, 1693-1700. Editorial notes, appendixes and index. At the Clarendon Press. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, edited with his Aesthetical Essays by J. SHAWCROSS. 1907. Two volumes. Pp. xcviii+272, and 334. 12s. 6d. net. At the Clarendon Press. Keble's Lectures on Poetry, delivered in Latin 1832-1841, now first translated into English by E. K. FRANCIS. 1912. Two volumes. Pp. 434, 534. 15s. net. At the Clarendon Press. Shakespeare Criticism, A selection (from Heminge and Condell to Carlyle) with an introduction by D. NICHOL SMITH. 1917. See p. 218. World's Classics, No. 212. Indexes to Johnson's Lives of the Poets and other Critical Essays Alphabetical List of the Poets of whom there are Lives in Johnson's Lives of the Poets (see above, p. 169 for Dr. Birkbeck Hill's edition, and below, p. 219 in the World's Classics for an edition in two volumes). Index of the Authors included in the Elizabethan and XVII-century Essays (abbreviated as E (vols.) i, ii, XVII (vols.) i, ii, iii), and the Oxford Miscellany (see pp. 174, 175). Oxford Miscellany Green and Gold Volumes, cloth extra, gilt design, fcap 8vo (63 × 43). 3s. 6d. net each This Series, hitherto devoted chiefly to the Classics of the Romantic Movement and of Nineteenth Century Literature, offers not the complete works of authors, but books, selections or collections, of minor compass: some of obvious importance, some now recommended for pleasant reading by the affectionate insistence of their admirers; the Heroine by Sir Walter Raleigh, Cobbett's Grammar and Advice by Judge Stephen, the Hambledon Men by Mr. E. V. Lucas. It collects specially the literary criticism and other fine writings of the poets, first or alternative versions of well-known books, and Memoirs and Essays such as Jowett's on Changes of Habit and Casuistry, unknown to a generation which does not study his two-volume edition of St. Paul's Epistles. Anthologies of War Songs and Sea Songs have been specially made for the Series, and the last three volumes give in English form some specimens of old Japanese literature. The nine particular Stars The following nine volumes are careful reproductions of original editions now scarce or costly; most of them are in type-facsimile, so that the reader may have before him what the contemporaries of the poet saw on the pages fresh from the press. The Poems of William Collins. PERSIAN | ECLOGUES. | Written originally for the | ENTERTAINMENT | OF THE Ladies of TAURIS. | And now first tranflated, &c. | [motto] | Cic. pro Arch. Poeta.| LONDON: | Printed for J. ROBERTS, in Warwick-Lane. 1742. | (Price Six-pence.) Printed with facsimile title-pages of the Eclogues (as above) of the Verses to Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1743, and of the Odes, 1746, with the other poems, omitting the Lines, now found to be erroneously ascribed to Collins; appendix of Letters and index of First Lines. Edited, with a Memoir, by CHRISTOPHER STONE. 1907. Pp. xxxvi, 92. With a photogravure of the portrait engraved by H. Robinson and three pictures of Chichester. Poems by Gray, 1768. POEMS BY Mr. GRAY. | LONDON: | Printed for J. DODSLEY, in Pall-mall. | M DCC LXVIII. Reprinted in type-facsimile, 1911, with two other poems published in Gray's lifetime, and illustrations. Pp. 122 + 24. The Kilmarnock Burns, 1786. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, BY | ROBERT BURNS. | THE Simple Bard, unbroke by rules of Art, | He pours the wild effufions of the heart : | And if infpir'd, 'tis Nature's pow'rs infpire; | Her's all the melting thrill, and her's the kindling fire. | ANONYMOUS. KILMARNOCK: | PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON. | M,DCC,LXXXVI. Reprinted in type-facsimile, 1911, with five specified corrections, the reading of the original retained in 'An honest man's the noble work of God'. Pp. viii, 240. Lyrical Ballads, 1798. LYRICAL BALLADS, | WITH | A FEW OTHER POEMS. | LONDON : | PRINTED FOR J. & A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET. | 1798. Edited by H. LITTLEDALE. 1911. Pp. viii, 212. Poems by Wordsworth, 1807. POEMS, IN | TWO VOLUMES, | BY | WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. | Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur | Nostra: dabunt cum securos mihi tempora fructus. | VOL. I [II]. | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME | PATERNOSTER-ROW. | 1807. Reprinted, in one volume, 1913, page for page and line for line, with thirteen corrections from the edition of 1815, and indexes now added of Titles and First Lines. Pp. viii, 344. Poems by Keats, 1820. LAMIA, | ISABELLA, | THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, | AND | OTHER POEMS. | BY JOHN KEATS, | AUTHOR OF ENDYMION. | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY, FLEET-STREET. | 1820. Reprinted page for page and line for line, one misprint corrected. Pp. 200. Poems by Shelley, 1820. PROMETHEUS UNBOUND | A LYRICAL DRAMA | IN FOUR ACTS | WITH OTHER POEMS BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY | AUDISNE HÆC, AMPHIARAE, SUB TERRAM ABDITE? | LONDON | C AND J OLLIER_VEŘE STREET BOND STREET | 1820. Reprinted, with corrections necessitated by the circumstances in which the original edition was produced; the cancelled passages of the Bodleian MS. added from Mr. Č. D. Locock's Shelley MSS. in the Bodleian, for which see p. 170. With a portrait. Pp. 160. Poems by Tennyson, 1842. POEMS. BY | ALFRED TENNYSON. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I [II] | LONDON :| EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. MDCCCXLII. An exact but not a page for page reprint of the edition of 1842; the half-titles and advertisements omitted, line numbers added to some poems, and a few trifling errors of spelling, punctuation, and numeration silently corrected. With new Indexes of First Lines and Titles. Pp. 296. Browning's Men and Women, 1855. MEN AND WOMEN. | BY | ROBERT BROWNING. IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [II] | LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. | 1855. A verbatim reprint, with five small corrections of the edition of 1855, and line numbers . added to some poems. With new Indexes of First Lines and Titles. Pp. 318. Selections from the Poets The Lyrical Poems of William Blake, the text that of JOHN SAMPSON (in the Spenser Series catalogued on p. 160), with an introduction by Sir WALTER RALEIGH, 1905. Pp. lii, 196, with two illustrations. Also copies printed on Oxford India paper. 4s. 6d. net. Select Poems of John Clare, edited, with an introduction, by ARTHUR SYMONS. 1908. Pp. 208. Select Poems of W. M. Praed, edited, with an introduction, by A. D. GODLEY from the Poems of 1864, with three other poems reprinted from other sources and one from MS. 1909. Pp. 156, with a portrait. Selected Poems of William Barnes, edited, with a preface and glossarial notes, by THOMAS HARDY. With a portrait. 1908. Pp. xvi+ 196. Poems of Clough, designed to set out the two versions of the Bothie, the Toper-naFuosich of 1846, and the Tober-na-Vuolich of 1862, with certain MS. corrections made by Clough, many not embodied in the second version; including Ambarvalia and Amours de Voyage, &c., with an introduction upon the technique of the English hexameter. By H. S. MILFORD. 1910. Pp. xvi, 252. Literary History, &c. Johnson on Shakespeare. The Proposals, 1756, The Preface, 1765, and selections from the Notes to Johnson's edition of Shakespeare, edited with an introduction-by Sir WALTER RALEIGH. 1908 and reprinted. Pp. xxxii + 206. Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance, 1762, with the third Elizabethan Dialogue, 1759. Edited, with an introduction, by E. MORLEY. 1911. Pp. 176. Morgann's Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, 1777, reprinted page for page and line for line from the edition of 1777, with an introduction by W. A. GILL. 1912. Pp. xx + 186. Proserpine and Midas. Two unpublished Mythological Dramas by MARY SHELLEY. Edited with Introduction by A. KOSZUL. 1922. Pp. xxxii + 90. Poems and Extracts chosen by Wordsworth (from the works of Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, and others) for an Album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas, 1819, and now first printed therefrom, with a preface by J. R. REES, and an introduction by H. LITTLEDALE. 1905. Pp. xx+106, with a portrait and facsimile. Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes, first published 1810. Reprinted from the fifth edition of 1835, with introduction and notes by ERNEST DE SÉLINCOURT. With eight reproductions of contemporary illustrations and map. 1906. Pp. xxxii + 204. Copies can only be obtained on Oxford India paper, 4s. 6d. net. Wordsworth's Literary Criticism. Containing the Prefaces to Lyrical Ballads 1798, 1800, the Excursion 1814, Poems 1815, with the Supplementary Essay, the Essays on Epitaphs, &c. With an introduction, by N. SMITH. 1905. Pp. xxii + 260. Copies can only be obtained on Oxford India paper, 4s. 6d. net. Out of print. Coleridge's Literary Criticism. Extracts from Biographia Literaria, Table Talk, Literary Remains, Anima Poetae, &c. With an introduction by J. W. MACKAIL. 1908. Pp. xx + 266. Shelley's Literary and Philosophical Criticism. Containing all his later critical and speculative published writings (except the prefaces to poems) and a selection of the letters. From the prose collection edited by Mrs. Shelley and others. Edited, with an introduction, by JOHN SHAWCROSS. 1909. Pp. xlviii + 244. Shelley's Prose in the Bodleian MSS., the Essay on Christianity, the Defence of Poetry, and other fragments. Edited, with corrections, additions, and notes, by A. H. KOSZUL. 1910. Pp. 148. Jeffrey's Literary Criticism. A selection from his own volume, 'Contributions to the Edinburgh Review,' with the list of his articles published in the Review. Edited, with an introduction, by D. NICHOL SMITH. 1910. With a portrait. Pp. xxiv + 216. De Quincey's Literary Criticism. Containing the Essays on Rhetoric, Pope, and the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth; with shorter extracts and reviews. Edited, with an introduction, by H. DARBISHIRE. 1909. Pp. 268. Trelawny's Recollections of Shelley and Byron, 1858. Introduction by 2 portraits. Novels, Essays, &c. 1909. With Shelley's Pp. xxviii+220, Selections from Johnson's Rambler, 1750-2, with the Vision of Theodore, 1748. Introduction by W. HALE WHITE. 1907. With three illustrations; pp. xxxiv + 136. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations, calculated to regulate the Affections, and form the mind to Truth and Goodness, 1791. Introduction by E. V. LUCAS. 1906. With six illustrations by W. BLAKE. Pp. xiv +88. A Simple Story, by Mrs. INCHBALD, 1791. Reprinted from the fourth edition of 1799, with an introduction by LYTTON STRACHEY. 1908. Pp. xvi + 300. Wordsworth's Tract on the Convention of Cintra, 1809, with two Letters of Wordsworth, 1811. Introduction by A. V. DICEY. 1915. Pp. xl+244. The Heroine or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader, 1813. By E. S. BARRETT, Introduction by Sir WALTER RALEIGH. 1909. Pp. xvi + 298. Nightmare Abbey. By T. L. PEACOCK. Reprinted from the edition of 1818. 1923. Pp. viii+234. |