English Critical Essays; Nineteenth Century
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    English Critical Essays; Nineteenth Century
                                            
                            Edited by Edmund D. Jones
                            
                                19 Dec, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        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 f
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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