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 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |3 pages
The Fall of Robespierre 1794
part |1 pages
A Moral and Political Lecture 1795
part |4 pages
Conciones ad Populum 1795
part |1 pages
The Plot Discovered 1795
part |2 pages
The Watchman 1796
part |7 pages
Poems on Various Subjects 1796
part |3 pages
Ode on the Departing Year 1796
part |2 pages
Poems Second Edition 1797
part |7 pages
Fears in Solitude 1798
part |11 pages
Lyrical Ballads 1798
part |5 pages
Wallenstein 1800
part |3 pages
Poems Third Edition 1803
part |3 pages
General Estimates 1809–10
chapter 36a|2 pages
From an unsigned lampoon, ‘The Bards of the Lake’, Satirist
chapter 36b|1 pages
From an unsigned article, Edinburgh Annual Register for 1808
part |38 pages
The Friend 1809–10
part |29 pages
Remorse the performance, 1813
part |49 pages
Remorse the publication, 1813
part |10 pages
General Estimates 1814–15
part |49 pages
Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep 1816
part |37 pages
The Statesman's Manual 1816
part |10 pages
‘Blessed Are Ye That Sow Beside All Waters!’ A Lay Sermon 1817
part |93 pages
Biographia Literaria 1817
part |25 pages
Sibylline Leaves 1817
part |11 pages
Zapolya 1817
part |1 pages
General Estimates 1811–17
part |8 pages
The Friend 1818
part |52 pages
General Estimates 1818–23
chapter 94|3 pages
Unsigned article, ‘An Estimate of the Literary Character and Works of Mr. Coleridge’ Monthly Magazine
chapter 96|2 pages
Excerpts from unsigned articles on the state of the contemporary theatre, London Magazine
chapter 97|7 pages
Excerpts from an unsigned article, ‘The Mohock Magazine’, London Magazine
part |29 pages
Aids to Reflection 1825
part |11 pages
The Poetical Works 1828
part |37 pages
The Poetical Works 1829
part |23 pages
On the Constitution of Church and State 1830
part |21 pages
Aids to Reflection second edition, 1832
part |3 pages
General Estimate 1833
part |43 pages
The Poetical Works third edition, 1834
