1st Edition

George Crabbe The Critical Heritage

Edited By Arthur Pollard Copyright 1996
    510 Pages
    by Routledge

    510 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Part 1 THE CANDIDATE A Poetical Epistle to the Authors of the Monthly Review; Chapter 1 I. Edmund Cartwright, unsigned notice, Monthly Review; Chapter 2 2. Unsigned notice, Critical Review; Chapter 3 3. Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine; Part 2 THE LIBRARY; Chapter 4 4. Unsigned notice, Critical Review; Chapter 5 5. Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine; Chapter 6 6. Edmund Cartwright, unsigned notice Monthly Review; Part 3 THE VILLAGE; Chapter 7 7. Dr Johnson, letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds; Chapter 8 8. Unsigned notice, Critical Review; Chapter 9 9. Edmund Cartwright, unsigned notice,Monthly Review; Chapter 10 10. Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine; Part 4 THE NEWSPAPER; Chapter 11 II. Unsigned notice, Critical Review; Chapter 12 12. Charles Burney, unsigned notice, Monthly Review; Part 5 POEMS, 1807; Chapter 13 13. Unsigned reviews, Gentleman's Magazine; Chapter 14 14. Unsigned review, Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; Chapter 15 15. Unsigned review, Oxford Review; Chapter 16 16. Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 17 17. Thomas Denman, unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 18 18. Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 19 19. Unsigned review, Annual Review; Chapter 20 20. Unsigned reviews, Universal Magazine; Chapter 21 21. James Montgomery, unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Part 6 THE BOROUGH; Chapter 22 Thomas Denman, unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 23 23. Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 24 24. James Montgomery, unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 25 25. Unsigned review, Critical Review; Chapter 26 26. Unsigned reviews, Monthly Mirror; Chapter 27 27. Robert Grant, unsigned review, Quarterly Review; Chapter 28 28. Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 29 29. Unsigned review, Christian Observer; Part 7 TALES; Chapter 30 30. Crabbe, Preface to Tales; Chapter 31 31. Unsigned review, British Review; Chapter 32 32. Unsigned review, Scourge; Chapter 33 Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 34 34. Thomas Denman, unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 35 35. Unsigned review, Critical Review; Chapter 36 36. Unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 37 x37. Unsigned reviews, Universal Magazine; Chapter 38 38. Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 39 39. James Smith,‘The Theatre’, Rejected Addresses; Chapter 40 T. N. Talfourd on Crabbe as historian ofthe poor; Chapter 41 Hazlitt on sti1l 1ife of tragedy' in Crabbe; Chapter 42 R. H. Dana replies to Hazlitt; Part 8 TALES OF THE HALL; Chapter 43 43. John Wilson (‘Christopher North’), unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 44 44. Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review,Edinburgh Review; Chapter 45 45. Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 46 46. Unsigned review, Edinbugh Monthly Review; Chapter 47 47. Unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine; Chapter 48 48. Unsigned review, Christian Observer; Chapter 49 49. Unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 50 50. Unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 51 51. Comments by Crabbe's contemporaries; Chapter 52 52. Hazlitt attacks Crabbe; Chapter 53 53. John Wilson reinforces the attack; Part 9 POETICAL WORKS (WITH LIFE); Chapter 54 54 ‘Farewell, dear Crabbe!’; Chapter 55 55. J. G. Lockhart, unsigned reviews, Quarter Review; Chapter 56 56. Unsigned review, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 57 57. O. W. B. Peabody,unsigned review,North American Review; Chapter 58 58. Unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 59 59. Unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 60 60. Unsigned review, Gentleman's Magazine; Chapter 61 61. William Empson, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 62 62. Unsigned review, New York Review; Chapter 63 63. Victorian views of Crabbe; Chapter 64 64. An early American assessment; Chapter 65 65. Gilfillan's ‘spasmodic’ criticism; Chapter 66 66. Another American view; Chapter 67 67. W. C. Roscoe on Crabbe's standing in mid-century; Chapter 68 68. Fiction—in prose or verse?; Chapter 69 69. Fifty years after; Chapter 70 70. Crabbe and the eighteenth century: an American estimate; Chapter 71 71. A third-rate poet; Chapter 72 71. A third-rate poet; Chapter 73 73. A last American judgment; Chapter 74 74. FitzGerald as Crabbe's Champion; Chapter 75 75. Patmore contrasts Crabbe and Shelley; Chapter 76 76. Final verdicts (1): Crabbe as a ‘Great Writer’; Chapter 77 77. Final verdicts (II): Saintsbury not so enthusiastic;

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    Arthur Pollard