Name: English Critical Essays; Nineteenth Century
Author: Various
ISBN: 9780192811172

English Critical Essays; Nineteenth Century

Edited by Edmund D. Jones 18 Dec, 2019

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FROM THE PREFACE.........The essays here brought together are meant to illustrate English literary criticism during the nineteenth century. A companion volume representative of Renaissance and Neo-classic criticism will, it is hoped, be issued at a future date. Meanwhile, this volume may well go forth alone. For the nineteenth-century forms an epoch in English literature whose beginnings are more clearly defined than those of most literary epochs. The publication of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798, and of Wordsworth’s Preface to the second edition in 1800, show the Romantic Movement grown conscious and deliberate, with results that have coloured the whole stream of English poetry and criticism ever since. Less

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