ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |55 pages
Introduction
part |128 pages
The Early Reception
chapter |3 pages
Thomas Yalden, ‘To Mr. Congreve. An Epistolary Ode Occasion'd by his late Play'
1693
chapter |1 pages
Charles Hopkins in ‘An Epistle from Mr. Charles Hopkins to Mr. Yalden in Oxon.'
1699
chapter |2 pages
Daniel Kenrick in A New Session of the Poets, Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Dryden
1700
part |116 pages
The Eighteenth-Century Response
chapter |1 pages
Alexander Pope, miscellaneous comments
chapter |1 pages
Anon., review of The Way of the World in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
1775
part |187 pages
The Nineteenth Century and After
chapter |2 pages
Anon., reviews of The Double-Dealer and The Mourning Bride in The Monthly Mirror
1802–7
chapter |6 pages
William Makepeace Thackeray in The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century
1851
chapter |4 pages
George Meredith in ‘On the Idea of Comedy, and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit'
1877
