William Congreve: The Critical Heritage

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Alexander Lindsay, Howard Erskine-Hill
Psychology Press, 1989 - 494 sivua

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

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Introduction
1
The Early Reception
56
2 John Dryden on the Old Batchelour 1692
58
3 Prefatory Poems to the Old Batchelour 1693
59
4 Peter Motteux in the Gentlemans Journal 1693
63
5 Henry Higden in the Preface to the Wary Widdow 1693
64
6 John Dryden in the Dedication to Examen Poeticum 1693
66
7 Thomas Yalden to Mr Congreve an Epistolary Ode Occasiond by His Late Play 1693
67
55 Anon in the Daily Gazetteer 1737
216
56 Henry Fielding in the Champion 1739
217
57 Samuel Foote in the Roman and English Comedy Considerd and Compard 1747
218
58 Edmund Burke in the Reformer 1748
219
59 William Melmoth on Congreves Translations of Homer 1750
220
60 John Campbell and Andrew Kippis in Biographia Britannica 1750 and 1789
224
61 Joseph Warton in the Adventurer 1754
229
62 Arthur Murphy in the Grays Inn Journal 1754
230

8 Jonathan Swift to Mr Congreve 1693
70
9 William Congreve Epistle Dedicatory to the Double Dealer 1693
77
10 John Dryden on the Doubledealer 1693
82
11 William Dove to Mr Congreve 1693
84
12 Joseph Addison in an Account of the Greatest English Poets 1694
85
13 Charles Hopkins in to Walter Moyle Esq 1694
86
14 Anon in the Mourning Poets 1695
87
15 Edward Howard in the Proem to an Essay upon Pastoral 1695
88
16 William Congreve concerning Humour in Comedy 1695
90
17 William Pittis in an Epistolary Poem to N Tate Esquire 1696
98
18 Catharine Trotter to Mr Congreve on His Tragedy the Mourning Bride 1697
101
19 Sir Richard Blackmore in the Preface to King Arthur 1697
102
20 Charles Hopkins Dedication of Boadicea Queen of Britain 1697
104
21 Anon in the Justice of Peace 1697
106
22 Jeremy Collier in a Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage 1698
108
23 Elkanah Settle in a Defence of Dramatick Poetry 1698
115
24 William Congreve in Amendments of Mr Colliers False and Imperfect Citations 1698
116
25 Anon in a Letter to Mr Congreve 1698
133
26 Anon in Animadversions on Mr Congreves Late Answer to Mr Collier 1698
138
27 Jeremy Collier in a Defence of the Short View 1698
139
28 Anon in Some Remarks upon Mr Colliers Defence 1698
160
29 Charles Gildon in a Letter to Mr Congreve Occasiond by the Death of the Countess Dowager of Manchester 1698
163
30 Anon in a Session of the Poets 1698
164
31 John Oldmixon in Reflections on the Stage 1699
165
32 James Drake in the Ancient and Modern Stages Surveyd 1699
167
33 Charles Hopkins in an Epistle from Mr Charles Hopkins to Mr Yalden in Oxon 1699
169
34 Charles Gildon in Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets 1699?
170
35 Sir Richard Blackmore in a Satyr Against Wit 1699
175
36 William Congreve Dedication of the Way of the World 1700
176
37 Samuel Wesley in an Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry 1700
179
38 Samuel Cobb in Poetae Britannici 1700
180
39 Daniel Kenrick in a New Session of the Poets Occasiond by the Death of Mr Dryden 1700
181
40 Anon in an Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore 1700
182
The Eighteenthcentury Response 1701 93 41 Richard Steele epistle to Mr Congreve Occasiond by His Comedy Calld the Way of the World 1701
184
42 Anon in a Comparison Between the Two Stages 1702
186
43 Anon in the Tryal of Skill 1704
188
44 Richard Steele on the Old Batchelour and doris 170913
190
45 John Dennis in Remarks upon Mr Popes Translation of Homer 1717
193
46 Richardson Pack in of Study 1719
195
48 Lady mary wortley montagu to the memory of mr congreve 1729
198
49 Jonathan Swift in a Letter to Viscount Bolingbroke and Alexander Pope 1729
199
50 David Mallet a Poem to the Memory of Mr Congreve 1729
200
51 Anon in an Epistle to Lord Viscount Cobham 1730
205
52 Alexander Pope Miscellaneous Comments
211
53 Francoismarie Arouet De Voltaire in Letters Concerning the English Nation 1733
212
54 William Popple in the Prompter 1735
213
63 Arthur Murphy ? Three Reviews in the London Chronicle 17578
231
64 Charles Churchill I N the Rosciad 1761
236
65 Arthur Murphy in an Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding Esq 1762
237
66 Henry Home Lord Kames in Elements of Criticism 17623
239
67 Samuel Johnson in the Life of Samuel Johnson Lld by James Boswell 1769
245
68 Francis Gentleman in the Dramatic Censor 1770
246
69 Anon Review of the Way of the World in the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser 1775
250
70 William Mason in memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr Gray 1775
252
71 Horace Walpole in thoughts on Comedy 17756
253
72 Anon Review of the Way of the World in the Morning Chronicle 1776
255
73 Fanny Burney in Evelina 1778
256
74 Samuel Johnson congreve 1781
260
75 Hugh Blair in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1783
271
76 Thomas Da Vies in Dramatic Miscellanies 1784
273
77 Anon Review of the Way of the World in the Public Advertiser 1784
292
78 Charles Este ? Reviews of Love for Love and the Mourning Bride in the World 1787
293
79 censor Dramaticus in the Thespian Magazine 1792
296
The nineteenth century and after 18021913
300
81 Anon on the Character of Congreve as a Writer of Comedy 1804
302
82 Elizabeth Inchbald on Love for Love 1808
310
83 William Hazlitt on Congreve 181619
311
84 Richard Cumberland in the British Drama 1817
319
85 George Gordon Lord Byron in His Letters to John Murray 18201
328
86 Charles Lamb in the London Magazine 1822
329
87 James Boaden on Congreve 182731
333
88 Hartley Coleridge in Biographia Borealis with the Annotations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1833
342
89 Leigh Hunt in the Introduction to the Dramatic Works of Wycherley Congreve Vanbrugh and Farquhar 1840
351
90 Thomas Babington Macaulay in comic Dramatists of the Restoration 1841
364
91 Reviews of Love for Love and the Way of the World in the Times 1842
377
92 William Makepeace Thackeray I N the English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century 1851
387
93 Charles Cowden Clarke in congreve and Wycherley 1871
393
94 George Meredith in on the Idea of Comedy and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit 1877
402
95 Algernon Charles Swinburne Congreve 1877
405
96 Oswald Crawfurd in English Comic Dramatists 1883
409
97 Edmund Gosse in the Life of William Congreve 1888
411
98 We Henley Reviews Edmund Gosses William Congreve 1888
420
99 Walter Raleigh in the English Novel 1894
425
100 Gs Street in the Introduction to the Comedies of William Congreve 1895
427
101 Sir Leslie Stephen in English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century 1904
438
102 Ab Walkley Review of the Way of the World in the Times Literary Supplement 1904
443
103 William Archer in the Introduction to William Congreve 1912
447
104 Charles Whibley in the Cambridge History of English Literature 1912
463
105 John Palmer in the Comedy of Manners 1913
475
Index
487
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