Literary Criticism of 17Th Century EnglandThis 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 Poetry, and Donne Idea of a Woman. p> he selection is excellent?The introduction is most admirable and ?Tayler wisely is generous with explanations and identifications?His most volume supplants Sringarn as THE best collection of seventeenth-century criticism.?/p>Seventeenth-Century News Winter 1967 |
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... gives us “critic” in its modern signification of one who does not merely judge—but judges a work of art. It is during this period that we encounter literary biography, editing, and criticism agitated almost for the first time by the ...
... give to it alone the name of Wit. . . So long as both “fancy and judgment” were “comprehended under the name of wit,” the word remained equivalent to ingenium or esprit in the widest sense and could serve as an honorable name for the ...
... give Cammels hornes. That, Enargia, or cleerenes of representation, requird in absolute Poems is not the perspicuous delivery of a lowe invention; but high, and harty invention exprest in most significant, and unaffected phrase; it ...
... give this Poet leave, To sing the acts done by the Romane Hoasts; How much beyond, would future times receive The same facts, made by any other knowne? O blest Ai'acides! 1 to have the grace That out of such a mouth, thou shouldst be ...
... gives great aide to his industrie; but in this, are these helpes, exceeding sparing. or nothing; and yet is the Structure so elaborate, and pompous, that the poore plaine Ground worke (considered together) may seeme the naturally rich ...
Contents
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Sir Francis Bacon
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Dudley North 3rd Baron North
| 157 |
Edmund Bolton
| 167 |
Michael Drayton
| 177 |
Andrew Marvell
| 291 |
Abraham Cowley
| 295 |
Thomas Sprat
| 315 |
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
| 325 |
John Dryden
| 330 |
Joseph Glanvill
| 352 |
Samuel Butler
| 358 |
Sir William Soames
| 363 |
John Milton
| 184 |
Sir Kenelm Digby
| 202 |
William Drummond of Hawthornden
| 214 |
Thomas Carew
| 217 |
Henry Reynolds
| 224 |
George Herbert
| 259 |
Sir John Suckling
| 263 |
Sir William Davenant or DAvenant
| 269 |
Thomas Hobbes
| 278 |
Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon
| 377 |
Francis Atterbury
| 390 |
Charles Gildon
| 397 |
George Granville Baron Lansdowne
| 409 |
Appendix
| 419 |
Selected Bibliography
| 425 |
Index
| 429 |