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 |14 pages
The Early Days
part |77 pages
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
part |16 pages
The Period Prior to Publication of the Village Minstrel: Incidental Comments
part |51 pages
The Village Minstrel
part |13 pages
The Period Prior to Publication of The Shepherd's Calendar: Incidental Comments
part |11 pages
The Shepherd's Calendar
part |9 pages
The Period Prior to Publication of the Rural Muse: Incidental Comments
part |25 pages
The Rural Muse
chapter 96|13 pages
John Wilson, unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
part |26 pages
The Asylum Years
part |27 pages
Obituaries and Lives
part |22 pages
The Period 1874–1920
part |62 pages
The Period 1920–35
part |62 pages
The Period 1935–64