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.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |5 pages
Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire
part |4 pages
Zastrozzi, a Romance
chapter 4|1 pages
Unsigned notice, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle
chapter 5|3 pages
Unsigned, review, The Critical Review and Annals of Literature
part |5 pages
St. Irvyne: or The Rosicrucian
part |8 pages
The Necessity of Atheism and a Declaration of Rights
part |32 pages
Queen Mab
chapter 11|8 pages
Review signed ‘F.,' The Theological Inquirer, or Polemical Magazine
chapter 13|3 pages
Unsigned review, The London Magazine and Theatrical Inquisitor
chapter 14|7 pages
Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres
chapter 15|2 pages
Unsigned notice, The Monthly Magazine and British Register
chapter 16|2 pages
Unsigned notice, The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review
chapter 18|8 pages
William Bengo Collyer, from a review of Queen Mab in ‘Licentious Productions in High Life,' The Investigator, or Quarterly Magazine
part |11 pages
Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude: and other poems
chapter 23|2 pages
Leigh Hunt on Shelley in ‘Young Poets,' The Examiner
chapter 24|5 pages
John Gibson Lockhart, review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
part |38 pages
The Revolt of Islam
chapter 25|9 pages
Leigh Hunt, The Examiner
chapter 26|8 pages
John Gibson Lockhart, unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
chapter 29|9 pages
Leigh Hunt, ‘The Quarterly Review and The Revolt of Islam', The Examiner
part |19 pages
Rosalind and Helen
part |62 pages
The Cenci
chapter 34|1 pages
Unsigned notice, The Monthly Magazine, or British Register
chapter 35|5 pages
Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences
chapter 36|7 pages
Unsigned review, The London Magazine and Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review
chapter 37|7 pages
Review signed ‘B.,' The Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror
chapter 38|5 pages
Unsigned review, The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register
chapter 44|5 pages
Unsigned review, The Independent, a London Literary and Political Review
chapter 45|7 pages
Unsigned review, The British Review and London Critical Journal
part |45 pages
Prometheus Unbound
chapter 48|2 pages
Extract, unsigned review, The London Magazine, under ‘Literary and Scientific Intelligence'
chapter 49|10 pages
Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette, and journal of the Belles Lettres
chapter 50|8 pages
John Gibson Lockhart, review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
chapter 51|6 pages
Unsigned review, The London Magazine and Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review
chapter 52|4 pages
Unsigned review, The Lonsdale Magazine or Provincial Repository
chapter 53|3 pages
Unsigned review, The Monthly Review and British Register
part |19 pages
General Comment and Opinions in 1820 and 1821
chapter 58|6 pages
Extract from unsigned ‘Portraits of the Metropolitan Poets, No. III, Mr. Percy Byshe [sic] Shelley,' in The Honeycomb
chapter 60|3 pages
Unsigned article, ‘Critical Remarks on Shelley's Poetry'
chapter 61|4 pages
Extract from unsigned article, ‘On the Philosophy and Poetry of Shelley'
part |46 pages
‘Epipsychidion,' ‘Adonais', ‘Hellas,’ and General Comment From
chapter 65|7 pages
‘Seraphina and Her Sister Clementina's Review of Epipsychidion,' The Gossip
chapter 66|3 pages
Unsigned review, The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review
chapter 67|5 pages
Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres
chapter 68|10 pages
Unsigned review, ‘Remarks on Shelley's Adonais,' Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
chapter 69|6 pages
Leigh Hunt, ‘Letters to the Readers of the Examiner, No. 6—On Mr. Shelley's New Poem, Entitled Adonais'
chapter 70|6 pages
Unsigned review, The General Weekly Register of News, Literature, Law, Politics, and Commerce
chapter 71|8 pages
Leigh Hunt, The Examiner
chapter 72|2 pages
Extract from an anonymous article, ‘The Augustan Age in England'
chapter 76|1 pages
William Hazlitt, extract from ‘Preface and Critical List of Authors' in Select British Poets
part |38 pages
Posthumous Poems 1824
chapter 77|11 pages
William Hazlitt, review of Shelley's Posthumous Poems
chapter 80|3 pages
Unsigned notice, ‘Criticism: Percy Bysshe Shelley,' New York Literary Gazette and Phi Beta Kappa Repository
chapter 86|5 pages
Review signed ‘Egeria,' ‘Character and Writings of Shelley'
chapter 87|11 pages
Unsigned review, extracts from ‘The Shelley Papers'
part |50 pages
Reassessments and Reconsiderations After 1840