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Author:   J. W. H. Atkins
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367763565

ISBN 10:   0367763567
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   01 May 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. The Break with Renascence Tradition: New French Influences i) Neo-Classicism ii) More Liberal Doctrines 2. The Transitional Stage: Davenant, Hobbes, Cowley, Sprat and Dryden i) Poetry ii) Prose Style iii) Drama 3. New French Influences: Rymer, Mulgrave, Temple, Wotton, Phillips, Wolseley and Collier i) Influence of Rapin and Boileau ii) Reaction to Perrault and Fontenelle iii) Interest in Early Native Literature iv) Contemporary Problems 4. ‘The Father of English Criticism’ Dryden i) Nature and Art of Poetry ii) Forms of Poetry: Epic iii) Critical Standards and Judgments 5. Neo-Classicism Challenged: Dennis, Addison, Pope, Swift, Welsted and Blackwell 6. The Widening Outlook: Lowth, Young, Gray, the Wartons, Hurd i) Influence of ‘Longinus’ ii) Antiquarian Interests 7. Shakespeare Criticism: Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Johnson, Kames, Mrs. Montagu and Morgann i) Work of Editors ii) Shakespeare Studies 8. The Great Cham of Literature: Johnson i) Critical Standards and Methods ii) Literary Theory 9. Critical Cross-Currents: Fielding, Sheridan, Cowper, Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke, Kames, Reynolds and Beattie i) Littérateurs ii) Philosophers iii) Art Critics iv)Minor Contributors 10. Conclusion

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'...this solid and useful book on this great period in English criticism should have contemporary appeal beyond the classrooms... Professor Atkins's comments on individual authors and works are always judicious... his history is likely to be permanently valuable.' The New Statesman 'The history of criticism is tangled, often repetitive... and Professor Atkins has once more sorted out the threads during a period, with a thoroughness readers of his volume on English Renaissance criticism will recognise...' The Spectator '...a scholar of wide learning and accomplishment...' Times Literary Supplement

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J. W. H. Atkins was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Aberystwyth

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