Twelve famous plays of the restoration and eighteenth century

Table of Contents: “…--All for love; or; The world well lost, by John Dryden.--Venice preserv'd; or, A plot discovered, by Thomas Otway.…”


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His and hers : essays in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature by Messenger, Ann, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…A problem of praise: John Dryden and Anne Killigrew -- Novel into play: Aphra Behn and Thomas Southerne -- Selected nightingales: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, et. al. -- Town eclogues: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and John Gay -- Educational spectators: Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and Eliza Haywood -- Arabella Fermor, 1714 and 1769: Alexander Pope and Frances Moore Brooke -- Heroics and mock heroics: John Milton, Alexander Pope, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- Choice of life: Samuel Johnson and Ellis Cornelia Knight.…”
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His and hers : essays in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature by Messenger, Ann, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…A problem of praise: John Dryden and Anne Killigrew -- Novel into play: Aphra Behn and Thomas Southerne -- Selected nightingales: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, et. al. -- Town eclogues: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and John Gay -- Educational spectators: Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and Eliza Haywood -- Arabella Fermor, 1714 and 1769: Alexander Pope and Frances Moore Brooke -- Heroics and mock heroics: John Milton, Alexander Pope, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- Choice of life: Samuel Johnson and Ellis Cornelia Knight.…”


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Miscellaneous essays by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""HISTORY""; ""JOHN DRYDEN""; ""MIRABEAU""; ""BARÃ?RE""; ""FRANCIS ATTERBURY""; ""OLIVER GOLDSMITH""; ""DANTE""; ""PETRARCH""; ""A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. …”
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Restoration comedy

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T.S. Eliot : the contemporary reviews

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS 1917; POEMS 1919 ARA VOS PREC 1920 POEMS 1920; THE SACRED WOOD: ESSAYS ON POETRY AND CRITICISM 1920, 1921; THE WASTE LAND 1922; HOMAGE TO JOHN DRYDEN 1924; POEMS 1909-1925 1925; FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES: ESSAYS ON STYLE AND ORDER 1928, 1929; DANTE 1929 ANIMULA 1929 MARINA 1930; ASH-WEDNESDAY 1930; SELECTED ESSAYS 1917-1932 1932; SWEENEY AGONISTES 1932; THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM 1933.…”
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Enlightened England ; an anthology of English literature from Dryden to Blake.

Table of Contents: “…Literary values : an introduction -- Enlightened England : the cultural and intellectual milieu -- John Dryden -- John Pomfret -- Daniel Defoe -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury -- Bernard Mandeville -- Joseph Addison and Richard Steele -- John Gay -- Alexander Pope -- Jonathan Swift -- John Dyer -- James Thomson -- Edward Young -- Robert Blair -- Mark Akenside -- Joseph Warton -- Thomas Warton, Junior -- William Shenstone -- William Collins -- Thomas Gay -- David Hume -- Samuel Johnson -- James Boswell -- Sir Joshua Reynolds -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Thomas Chatterton -- Edward Gibbon -- William Cowper -- Robert Burns -- Edmund Burke -- Thomas Paine -- William Blake -- George Crabbe.…”


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William Congreve : the critical heritage

Table of Contents: “…William Congreve, Preface to Incognita, 1691; 2. John Dryden on the Old Batchelour, 1692; 3. Prefatory Poems to the Old Batchelour, 1693; 4. …”
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The tempest : sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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Oroonoko, or, The royal slave by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689

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Historical literatures : writing about the past in Engand, 1660-1740

Table of Contents: “…Satire and panegyric as forms of historical writing ; Metonymy : Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem ; Metaphor : John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegory -- 4. …”
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Famous editions of English poets

Table of Contents: “…John Milton, 1645.--John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, 1681; Alexander's feast, 1697.…”


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Theories of translation : an anthology of essays from Dryden to Derrida

Table of Contents: “…On the art of translation / Hugo Friedrich -- On translation / John Dryden -- On language and words / Arthur Schopenhauer -- From On the different methods of translating / Friedrich Schleiermacher -- From Introduction to his translation of Agamemnon / Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Translations / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Preface to The early Italian poets / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- On the problem of translation / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The task of the translator / Walter Benjamin -- Guido's relations / Ezra Pound -- The misery and the splendor of translation / José Ortega y Gasset -- Variations on the Eclogues / Paul Valéry…”


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Criticism : the major statements

Table of Contents: “…The republic ; The Ion / Plato -- The Poetics / Aristotle -- On the sublime / Longinus -- Epistle to the pisones / Horace -- An Apology for poetry / Philip Sidney -- An essay of Dramatic poesy / John Dryden -- An Essay on criticism / Alexander Pope -- Conjectures on original composition / Edward Young -- Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Discourses on art: no. …”


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The prince of poets; essays on Edmund Spenser. by Elliott, John R.

Table of Contents: “….) ; Michael Drayton ; Ben Jonson ; John Milton ; Sir William Davenant ; Abraham Cowley ; John Dryden ; Alexander Pope ; Thomas Warton ; William Wordsworth ; John Keats ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Leigh Hunt ; William Butler Yeats ; Virginia Woolf -- The critics' poet. …”


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The Cambridge companion to English literature, 1650-1740

Table of Contents: “…Winn -- Lyric forms / Joshua Scodel -- Classical texts : translations and transformations / Paul Hammond -- "The islands watchful centinel" : anti-Catholicism and proto-Whiggery in Milton and Marvell / Cedric C. Brown -- John Dryden / Steven N. Zwicker -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester / Ros Ballaster -- The authorial ciphers of Aphra Behn / Margaret Ferguson -- Swift, Defoe, and narrative forms / John Mullan -- Mary Astell and John Locke / Patricia Springsborg -- Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the literature of social comment / Donna Landry.…”


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Augustan Poets

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Selected essays, 1917-1932 by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

Table of Contents: “…Tradition and the individual talent (1917) -- The function of criticism (1923) -- Rhetoric and poetic drama (1919) -- A dialogue on dramatic poetry (1928) -- Euripides and Professor Murray (1918) -- Seneca in Elizabethan translation (1927) -- The Elizabethan dramatists (1924) -- Christopher Marlowe (1918) -- Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca (1927) -- Hamlet and his problems (1919) -- Ben Jonson (1919) -- Thomas Middleton (1927) -- Thomas Heywood (1931) -- Cyril Tourneur (1931) -- John Ford (1932) -- Philip Massinger (1920) -- Dante (1929) -- The metaphysical poets (1921) -- Andrew Marvell (1921) -- John Dryden (1922) -- William Blake (1920) -- Swinburne as poet (1920) -- Lancelot Andrewes (1926) -- John Bramhall (1927) -- Thoughts after Lambeth (1931) -- Baudelaire (1930) -- Arnold and Pater (1930) -- Francis Herbert Bradley (1926) -- Marie Lloyd (1923) -- Wilkie Collins and Dickens (1927) -- The humanism of Irving Babbit (1927) -- Second thoughts on humanism (1929) -- Charles Whibley (1931).…”


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The English language : essays by English and American men of letters, 1490-1839

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Shakespeare, the tragedies : a collection of critical essays

Table of Contents: “…Preface containing the grounds of criticism in tragedy (1679) / John Dryden -- Reflections on the Julius Caesar (1693) / Thomas Rymer -- Additional observations on Shakespeare's dramatic character of Hamlet in a letter to a friend (1784) / William Richardson -- Hamlet (ca. 1819) / S.T. …”


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