Till I end my song : a gathering of last poems

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Notes on Footnotes : Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature

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Brill's companion to Statius

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 24 Statius and Silius ItalicusChapter 25 Statius and Martial: Post-vatic Self-fashioning in Flavian Rome; Part 7 Reception; Chapter 26 Reading Statius Through a Biographical Lens; Chapter 27 Papinius Noster: Statius in Roman Late Antiquity; Chapter 28 Medieval Statius: Belatedness and Authority; Chapter 29 Statius in Dante's Commedia; Chapter 30 The Thebaid in Italian Renaissance Epic: The Case of Capaneus; Chapter 31 Early Modern Thebaid: The Latin Commentary Tradition; Chapter 32 Statian Recusatio: Angelo Poliziano and John Dryden; Chapter 33 Naturalizing Statius.…”
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A companion to literature from Milton to Blake

Table of Contents: “…Aphra Behn, Poems / Sarah Prescott / 20. John Dryden, Fables / David Hopkins ; 21. William Congreve, The Way of the World / Malcolm Kelsall ; 22. …”
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Great Shakespeareans. Set I, parts I-IV

Table of Contents: “…HalfTitle -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone Edited by Claude Rawson -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 John Dryden -- Conversations about Shakespeare -- Cycles and Subcycles -- The Rules and the Unities -- Stage and Page -- The Nature of 'Nature' -- Dryden's Constituency -- Conclusion -- 2 Alexander Pope -- A Page, a Grave -- Labour and elegance in Pope's editing -- Pope's editorial rationale -- Pope's editorial practice -- The editor as verse thinker -- 3 Samuel Johnson -- The 'Preface to Shakespeare' -- 4 Edmond Malone -- Editing the Text: Textual Criticism -- Textual Editing: Interpretation and Explication -- The Dates and Order of Shakespeare's Plays -- The Life of Shakespeare -- Malone's Account of the English Stage -- Shakespearean Forgeries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Part II Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean Edited by Peter Holland -- Introduction -- 5 David Garrick -- Statues -- Collecting Books -- Editor and Commentator -- Examining the Actor -- Playing Macbeth -- Editing Macbeth -- Authentic Macbeth -- Contexts for change: Garrick the actor -- Contexts for change: the Shakespeare revival -- Plays problematic and triumphant -- Fairies and comedy -- 1769: Garrick, Shakespeare and cultural tourism -- 6 John Philip Kemble -- The Memory of Kemble -- Becoming 'Great John Kemble': Kemble and the Gothic -- Becoming 'King John': Kemble and the Crowd -- Ending as an Old Roman: Kemble and the Classical -- 7 Sarah Siddons -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- 8 Edmund Kean -- Provincial Playing -- 26 January 1814: Shylock -- Romantic Shakespeare -- Richard III -- Othello -- Other Shakespearean Roles -- Non-Shakespearean Roles -- A Coda -- Notes -- Select Bibliography.…”
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100 poems by 100 poets : an anthology

Table of Contents: “…Kitchener Davies -- On A Pair Of Garters by John (1569-1626) Davies -- The Storm by Emily Dickinson -- Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson -- Twicknam Garden by John Donne -- Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson -- Idea: 61 by Michael Drayton -- A Song For St. Cecilia's Day by John Dryden -- A Modest Love by Edward Dyer -- La Figlia Che Piange by Thomas Stearns Eliot -- Let It Go by William Empson -- Provide, Provide by Robert Frost -- The Green Knight's Farewell To Fancy by George Gascoigne -- Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind by Barnaby (barnabe) Googe -- I Leave This At Your Ear For When You Wake by William Sydney Graham.…”


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Masterworks of world drama

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The silver swan : poems of romance and mystery

Table of Contents: “…Auden -- Souling song / Traditional: English -- Incantation to Oedipus / John Dryden -- Under the juniper tree: Lady, three whit leopards from Ash Wednesday / T.S. …”


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The Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1918

Table of Contents: “…Robert Mannying -- William Langland -- John Barbour -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Thomas Hoccleve -- John Lydgate -- King James I of Scotland -- Robert Henryson -- William Dunbar -- John Skelton -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Nicholas Grimald -- Alexander Scott -- Robert Wever -- Richard Edwardes -- George Gascoigne -- Alexander Montgomerie -- William Stevenson -- Nicholas Breton -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Edmund Spenser -- John Lyly -- Anthony Munday -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Thomas Lodge -- George Peele -- Robert Greene -- George Chapman -- Robert Southwell -- Henry Constable -- Samuel Daniel -- Mark Alexander Boyd -- Joshua Sylvester -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Richard Rowlands -- Thomas Nashe -- Thomas Campion -- John Reynolds -- Sir Henry Wotton -- John Davies -- Robert Ayton -- Ben Jonson -- John Donne -- Richard Barnefield -- Thomas Dekker -- Thomas Heywood -- John Fletcher -- John Webster -- William Alexander, Earl of Stirling -- Phineas Fletcher -- Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Sir John Beaumont -- William Drummond -- Giles Fletcher -- Francis Beaumont -- John Ford -- George Wither -- William Browne of Tavistock -- Robert Herrick -- Francis Quarles -- Henry King -- George Herbert -- James Shirley -- Thomas Carew -- Jasper Mayne -- William Habington -- Thomas Randolph -- Sir William Davenant -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Sir John Suckling -- Richard Fanshawe -- William Cartwright -- James Graham -- Thomas Jordan -- Richard Crashaw -- Richard Lovelace -- Abraham Cowley -- Alexander Brome -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- John Bunayna -- William Strode -- Thomas Stancey -- Thomas D'Urfey -- Charles Cotton -- Katherine Philips -- Thomas Traherne -- John Dryden -- Charles Webbe -- Sir George Etheredge -- Thomas Flatman -- Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset -- Sir Charles Sedley -- Aphra Behn -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. …”


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From Rhetoric to Aesthetics. by Bicanová, Klára

Table of Contents: “…3 True and False Wit: Dryden, Pope, and Addison -- 3.1 John Dryden and Vagaries of Restoration Wit -- 3.1.1 The Specifics of Dryden's Critical Style and Terminology -- 3.1.2 The Beginnings: The Essay of Dramatick Poesy -- 3.1.3 Annus Mirabilis and Beyond: Theory Expounded -- 3.1.4 French vs English, Moderns vs Ancients: Wit as Compromise -- 3.2 Alexander Pope and Wit as Meta-criticism -- 3.2.1 An Essay on Criticism: Critics' Enigma -- 3.2.2 The Contexts of An Essay on Criticism -- 3.2.3 From 'Wild Heap' to 'Nature to Advantage Dress'd': Pope's Dual Conception of Wit -- 3.2.4 Pope and Addison I: Pride, Vanity and Wit -- 3.3 Joseph Addison and the Aesthetics of Neoclassical Wit -- 3.3.1 The Spectator and the Neoclassical Criticism -- 3.3.2 The Spectator Series on Wit -- 3.3.3 Ambiguity and Surprise: Addison's Aesthetics of Neoclassical Wit -- 3.4 Wit and Esprit: Points of Accord and Dissonance -- 3.4.1 The French Criticism in England: The Question of Influence -- 3.4.2 Wit and Esprit as Signs of Advancement in English and French Culture -- 3.4.4 Wit and Esprit: Terminology of New Taste -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Index.…”
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The ultimate audition book. Volume IV : 222 comedy monologues 2 minutes & under

Table of Contents: “…Sherry Kramer -- Frederick Stroppel -- Richard Krzemien -- John Dryden -- Jane Martin -- Kathleen A. Rogers -- Anonymous -- Menander -- Eric Bogosian -- Ron Carlson -- Bless ji Jaja -- Aro Essandoh -- Anton Chekhov -- Howard Korder -- Megan Gogerty -- Titus Maccius Plautus -- Steve Martin -- Werner Trieschmann -- Aristophanes -- George Farquhar -- Langston -- Royall Tyler -- John Crowne -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Ian Frazier -- Robin Rothstein -- Frances Sherdian -- Moliere -- Rob Matsushita -- Keith Knight -- John Marston -- Peter Cook -- Dudley Moore -- Tam Robbins -- James David Corrothers -- Larry Doyle -- James Shirley -- Josh Kornbluth -- Rick Najera -- Samuel Foote -- Spalding Gray -- Michael K. …”


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Literature of the Stuart successions : an anthology by McRae, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…III. 3 Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary of the Government under his Highness the Lord Protector (1655) III. 4 From The Public Intelligencer, 152 (November 1658) ; III. 5 John Dryden, Heroic Stanzas, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his Most Serene and Renowned Highness Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Commonwealth, &c. …”
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John Donne

Table of Contents: “…43 Some general references to Donne's poems, or to Donne as a poet, 1660-170044 WILLIAM WINSTANLEY, 1660; 45 SAMUEL BUTLER, C. 1660; 46 JOHN HACKET, c. 1660; 47 ROBERT SIDNEY, SECOND EARL OF LEICESTER, 1661; 48 THOMAS SHIPMAN, 1667, 1677; 49 JOHN DRYDEN, 1649-1700; 50 MRS JOHN EVELYN, 1668; 51 The seventh collected edition of Donne's poems, 1669; 52 ANDREW MARVELL, 1673; 53 JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER, c. 1675; 54 EDWARD PHILLIPS, 1675, 1679; 55 ANON., Preface to Rochester's Valentinian, 1685; 56 FRANCIS ATTERBURY, 1690; 57 ANTHONY WOOD, 1691-2; 58 JOHN LOCKE, c. 1692.…”
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Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Table of Contents: “…5.6 Thomas Nashe (born 1567)5.7 Ben Jonson (born 1572); 5.8 John Dryden (born 1631); 6. Conclusion; References; Primary sources9; Other references; Neighbor Hob and Neighbor Lob; 1. …”
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The English reader : what every literate person needs to know

Table of Contents: “…Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Scarborough Fair -- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) -- Christopher Marlowe (1564 -- 1593) -- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) -- Greensleeves -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- John Donne (1572 -- 1631) -- Ben Jonson (1573 -- 1637) -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- King James Bible (1611) -- Robert Herrick (1591 -- 1674) -- George Herbert (1593 -- 1633) -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Barbara Allen -- John Milton (1608 -- 1674) -- Jeremy Taylor (1613 -- 1667) -- The two brothers -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) -- Andrew Marvell (1621 -- 1678) -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- Lord Randal -- John Dryden (1631 -- 1700) -- John Locke (1632 -- 1704) -- The girl i left behind me -- Isaac Newton (1642 -- 1727) -- Our God, our help in ages past -- Joy to the world -- Jonathan Swift (1667 -- 1745) -- Alexander Pope (1688 -- 1744) -- Rule, Britannia -- John Wesley (1703 -- 1791) -- Jesus, lover of my soul -- William Pitt (1708 -- 1778) -- Heart of Oak -- Samuel Johnson (1709 -- 1784) -- Thomas Gray (1716 -- 1771) -- Adam Smith (1723 -- 1790) -- God save the queen -- Edmund Burke (1729 -- 1797) -- Oliver Goldsmith (1730 -- 1774) -- William Cowper (1731 -- 1800) -- William Blake (1757 -- 1827) -- Mary Wollstonecraft (1859 -- 1897) -- Robert Burns (1759 -- 1796) -- Auld lang syne -- William Wilberforce (1759 -- 1833) -- Amazing Grace -- William Wordsworth (1770 -- 1850) -- Sir Walter Scott (1771 -- 1832) -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 -- 1834) -- Walter Savage Landor (1775 -- 1824) -- William Hazlitt (1778 -- 1830) -- Lord Byron (1788 -- 1824) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 -- 1822) -- John Clare (1793 -- 1864) -- Felicia Hemans (1793 -- 1835) -- John Keats (1795 -- 1821) -- Thomas Carlyle (1795 -- 1881) -- Thomas Hood (1799-1845) -- John Henry Newman (1801 -- 1890) -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 -- 1861) -- John Stuart Mill (1806 -- 1873) -- Edward Fitzgerald (1809 -- 1883) -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 -- 1892) -- Charles Darwin (1809 -- 1882) -- Edward Lear (1812 -- 1888) -- Robert Browning (1812 -- 1889) -- Emily Bronte (1818 -- 1848) -- John Ruskin (1819 -- 1900) -- Matthew Arnold (1822 -- 1888) -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 -- 1895) -- I know where I'm going -- Walter Bagehot (1826 -- 1877) -- Christina Rossetti (1830 -- 1894) -- Lewis Carroll (1832 -- 1898) -- William Morris (1834 -- 1896) -- Walter Pater (1839 -- 1894) -- Thomas Hardy (1840 -- 1928) -- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1843 -- 1909) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 -- 1889) -- W.E. …”


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Arthurian writers : a biographical encyclopedia

Table of Contents: “…-- 16 August 1641) / Peggy J. Huey -- John Dryden (9 August 1631 -- 1 May 1700) / Jena Trammell -- Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822-15 April 1888) / Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert T. …”
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The Routledge anthology of cross-gendered verse

Table of Contents: “…-- The Duke's Song -- Robert Herrick 1591-1674 -- The Mad Maid's Song -- Andrew Marvell 1621-1678 -- The Nymph Complaining For the Death of Her Fawn -- John Dryden 1631-1700 -- Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor -- Aphra Behn 1640-1689 -- The Dream, from "A Voyage to the Isle of Love."…”


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George Herbert, the critical heritage

Table of Contents: “…Izaac Walton', 1675 -- Edward Phillips, from 'Theatrum Poetarum', 1675 -- James duport, 'In divinum Poema (cui titulus Templum) Georgii Herberti', 1676 -- Samuel Speed, from 'Prison-Pietie', 1677 -- Richard Baxter, from his preface to 'Poetical Fragments', 1681 -- John Dryden, from 'MacFlecknoe', 1682 -- William Winstanley, from 'The Lives of the most Famous English Poets', 1687 -- John Dunton , from the 'Athenian Mercury', 1694 -- Daniel Baker, 'On Mr. …”


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Amazing grace : an anthology of poems about slavery, 1660-1810

Table of Contents: “…Henry King -- Edmund Hickeringill -- John Dryden -- Samuel Butler -- Michael Wigglesworth -- Thomas Jordan -- Thomas Flatman -- Aphra Behn -- ["Ephelia"] -- James Revel -- Thomas Tryon ["Philotheos Physiologus"] -- Elkanah Settle -- Thomas Southerne -- William Congreve -- John Saffin -- Daniel Defoe -- Samuel Sewall -- Bernard Mandeville -- Edmund Arwaker -- Thomas Walduck -- Alexander Pope -- Frances Seymour [neé Thynne], Countess of Hertford, later Duchess of Somerset -- William Pattison -- John Gay -- Stephen Duck -- Anonymous ("Sable") -- John Whaley -- Richard Savage -- Samuel Richardson -- Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein [or Captain] -- Robert Blair -- Edward Kimber -- William Shenstone -- James Thomson -- Thomas Bacon -- Lucy Terry -- William Dodd -- Samuel Johnson -- John Winstanley -- Cornelius Arnold -- Samuel Bowden -- John Dyer -- Anonymous ("Agricola") -- Francis Williams -- John Hawkesworth -- James Beattie -- John MacLaurin, later Lord Dreghorn -- Bryan Edwards -- Jupiter Hammon -- Isaac Teale -- Charles Churchill -- James Grainger -- Michael Wodhull -- Edward Jerningham -- John Singleton -- Phillis Wheatley -- Isaac Bickerstaffe -- Anonymous ["a Clergyman"].…”


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The Critical tradition : classic texts and contemporary trends

Table of Contents: “…Part one: Classic texts in literary criticism -- Plato -- Republic, Book X -- Ion -- Aristotle -- Poetics -- Horace -- The art of poetry -- Longinus -- On the sublime -- Plotinus -- On the intellectual beauty -- Dante Alighieri -- From the Letter to Can Grande della Scala -- Christine de Pisan -- From the Querelle de lá Rose -- Sir Philip Sidney -- An apology for poetry -- John Dryden -- An essay of Dramatic poesy -- Aphra Behn -- An epistle to the reader from The Dutch lover -- Preface to The lucky chance -- Alexander Pope -- An essay on Criticism -- Samuel Johnson -- The Rambler, no. 4 -- Rasselas, Chapter 10 -- From Preface to Shakespeare -- David Hume -- Of the Standard of taste -- Immanuel Kant -- From Critique of judgment -- Germaine de Staël -- Essay on fictions -- On women writers -- Friedrich von Schiller -- From on Naive and sentimental poetry -- William Wordsworth -- Preface to Lyrical ballads -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Shakespeare's Judgment equal to his genius -- From Biographia Literaria -- John Keats -- From a Letter to Benjamin Bailey -- From a Letter to George and Thomas Keats -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- A defence of poetry -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Introduction to the Philosophy of art -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The poet -- Karl Marx -- Consciousness derived from material conditions from The German ideology -- On Greek art in its time from A contribution to the critique of political economy -- Matthew Arnold -- The function of criticism at the present time -- From The study of poetry -- Friedrich Neitzsche -- From The birth of tragedy from the spirit of music -- Henry James -- The art of fiction -- Oscar Wilde -- The decay of lying -- Leo Tolstoy -- From What is art? …”


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