Research Catalog

Title

Augustan critical writing / edited with an introduction and notes by David Womersley.

Publication

London, England ; New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Womersley, David

Description

xlvii, 409 p.; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

Penguin classics

Subject

• Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. > Influence
• Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D
• 1500-1799
• Geschichte 1664-1734
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700
• Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• English prose literature > 18th century
• Criticism > Great Britain

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Nationalism and the Stage, 1664-1671. A Short Discourse of the English Stage (1664) / Richard Fleckno. 'Preface' to Four New Plays (1665) / Robert Howard. Of Dramatick Poesie, An Essay (1668) / John Dryden. 'Preface' to The Great Favourite (1668) / Robert Howard. 'Preface' to The Humorists (1671) / Thomas Shadwell -- II. Poetical Correctness, 1682-1701. An Essay Upon Poetry (1682) / Buckingham. An Essay On Translated Verse (1685) / Roscommon. 'Preface' to the Second Part of Waller's Poems (1690) / Francis Atterbury. Concerning Unnatural Flights in Poetry (1701) / Lansdowne -- III. Criticism and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1704-1711. Selections from The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (1704) / John Dennis.

ISBN

0140433732

LCCN

^^^98140284^

OCLC

• 39162447
• SCSB-11275978

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library