Literary Criticism of 17th Century EnglandEdward W. Tayler This collection of writings by English Renaissance poets and essayists includes poems and essays by Ben Jonson, George Chapman and Samuel Daniel. Excerpts from Francis Bacon, John Milton, William Drummond, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley. The book also surveys the origins, range and development of literary taste and practice in 16th and 17th century England. Then, as now, poets anchored their lines between the poles of tradition and inspiration, loyalty and liberty, art and truth. Edward W. Tayler is the emeritus Lionel trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His other books include Nature and Art in the Renaissance, Milton抯 Poetry, and Donne抯 Idea of a Woman. p> 揟he selection is excellent?The introduction is most admirable and ?Tayler wisely is generous with explanations and identifications?His most volume supplants Sringarn抯 as THE best collection of seventeenth-century criticism.?/p>Seventeenth-Century News Winter 1967 |
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... POETS [1637-38'7] 264 Sir William Davenant or D'Avenant from THE Au'rnon's PREFACE '10 . . . MR. HOBBS, Discourse ... POETS [1676/71 326 John Dryden APOLOGY FOR HEROIQUE POETRY; AND POETIQUE LICENCE [1677] 332 HEADS OF AN ANSWER TO RYMER ...
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Contents
P | 3 |
JORDAN 1 c 1630? | 11 |
George Chapman | 33 |
from THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE Odysseys 1614 | 43 |
Ben Jonson | 74 |
from CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIAM DRUMMOND 1619 | 83 |
TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1623 | 93 |
Sir Francis Bacon | 108 |
Sir William Davenant or DAvenant | 269 |
Thomas Hobbes | 278 |
Andrew Marvell | 291 |
OF WIT before 1656 | 308 |
Thomas Sprat | 315 |
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester | 325 |
APOLOGY FOR HEROIQUE POETRY AND POETIQUE LICENCE 1677 | 332 |
HEADS OF AN ANSWER TO RYMER 1677 | 344 |
FROM The Advancement of Learning 1605 | 146 |
Dudley North 3rd Baron North | 157 |
Edmund Bolton | 167 |
ΤΟ | 178 |
AT A VACATION EXERCISE 1628 | 185 |
OBSERVATIONS | 203 |
William Drummond of Hawthornden | 214 |
Henry Reynolds | 224 |
MY GOD WHERE IS THAT ANCIENT HEAT | 259 |
JORDAN II c 1630? | 261 |
FROM An Essay concerning Preaching 1677 | 353 |
UPON CRITICS 1678? | 359 |
Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon | 377 |
Francis Atterbury | 390 |
VINDICATION OF COWLEY AND WALLER 1693? | 399 |
VINDICATION OF MR MILTONS PARADISE LOST 16941 | 406 |
Samuel Johnson on Metaphysical Wit | 419 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 425 |