Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: The Critical Heritage

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Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom
Psychology Press, 1995 - 480 pages

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 students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.
Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.y

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Contents

47
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WILLIAM WAGSTAFFE ? The Character of Richard Steele
36
BENJAMIN VICTOR On the Death of Sir Richard Steele 1729
68
Steele the Pamphleteer
75
JONATHAN SWIFT The First Ode of the Second Book
98
Steele the Dramatist
106
RICHARD STEELE Spectator 51 28 April 1711
116
The Tender Husband 1705
118
The Spectator 171112 1714
231
WILLIAM WAGSTAFFE A Comment upon Tom Thumb 1711
232
A Letter from Will Honeycomb to the Examiner 1714
247
SIR RICHARD Blackmore An Essay upon Wit 1716
252
CHARLES GILDON The Complete Art of Poetry 1718
253
THEOPHILUS CIBBER The Life of Addison 1753
257
ROBERT HERON pseud Letters of Literature 1785
259
JANE AUSTEN Northanger Abbey 1818
264

DANIEL DEFOE The Fears of the Pretender 1715
125
COLLEY CIBBER Dedication to Ximena 1719
129
JOHN DENNIS The Characters and Conduct of Sir John Edgar 1720 Letters I IV
132
JOHN DENNIS? The Battle of the Authors Lately Fought in CoventGarden 1720
150
The Conscious Lovers 1722
159
The Freeholders Journal 14 November 1722
169
BENJAMIN VICTOR An Epistle to Sir Richard Steele 1722
172
Sir Richard Steele and his New Comedy 1722
174
JOHN DENNIS Remarks on the Preface to the Conscious Lovers 1723
183
The Censor Censured 1723
189
JOSEPH MITCHELL To Sir Richard Steele On The Conscious Lovers c 1723 1729
201
The Tatler 170911
203
The Examiner on the Tatler 1710
207
A Condoling Letter to the Tattler 1710
217
WILLIAM COWPER A Letter to Isaac Bickerstaff 1710
222
JOHN GAY The Present State of Wit 1711
224
HENRY FELTON A Dissertation on Reading the Classics 1713 1715
230
The Examiner 27 April1 May 1713
266
CHARLES GILDON Cato Examind 1713
274
GEORGE SEWELL Observations Upon Cato 1713
281
The Grumbler 1715
322
GEORGE SEWELL A Vindication of the English Stage 1716
329
Steele on The Drummer 1716 1722
335
LEONARD WELSTED To the Countess of Warwick on
341
THOMAS TICKELL Elegy To the Earl of Warwick 1721
348
EDWARD YOUNG Conjectures on Original Composition
358
HUGH BLAIR Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
366
JOHN GILBERT COOPER Letters concerning Taste 1755
381
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399
THOMAS WALLACE An Essay on the Variations of English
400
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Life and Writings
409
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The English Humourists
442
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