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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy — John Shaqi

A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxySaintsbury, George

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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy

Name: A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy
Author: Saintsbury, George

Saintsbury, George

Criticism -- History; Literature -- History and criticism; Literature, Medieval

Trapp                                                               462
 Blair                                                               462
 The _Lectures on Rhetoric_                                          463
 The _Dissertation on Ossian_                                        464
 Kames                                                               465
 The _Elements of Criticism_                                         466
 Campbell                                                            470
 The _Philosophy of Rhetoric_                                        470
 Harris                                                              473
 The _Philological Enquiries_                                        474
 “Estimate” Brown: his _History of Poetry_                           476
 Johnson: his preparation for criticism                              477
 _The Rambler_ on Milton                                             480
 On Spenser                                                          482
 On History and Letter-writing                                       483
 On Tragi-comedy                                                     483
 “Dick Minim”                                                        484
 _Rasselas_                                                          484
 The Shakespeare Preface                                             485
 The _Lives of the Poets_                                            486
 Their general merits                                                487
 The _Cowley_                                                        489
 The _Milton_                                                        489
 The _Dryden_ and _Pope_                                             490
 The _Collins_ and _Gray_                                            491
 The critical greatness of the _Lives_ and of Johnson                493
 Minor Criticism: Periodical and other                               496
 Goldsmith                                                           498
 Vicesimus Knox                                                      499
 Scott of Amwell                                                     500

                              CHAPTER II.

                    THE CONTEMPORARIES OF VOLTAIRE.

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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy

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