Literary Taste: How to Form It: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English LiteratureBennett, Arnold
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Literary Taste: How to Form It: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature
Bennett, Arnold
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*Beowulf*, Routledge's London Library 0 2 6
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, *Works:* Globe Edition 0 3 6
Nicolas Udall, *Ralph Roister-Doister:* Temple Dramatists 0 1 0
EDMUND SPENSER, *Works:* Globe Edition 0 3 6
Thomas Lodge, *Rosalynde:* Caxton Series 0 1 0
Robert Greene, *Tragical Reign of Selimus:* Temple Dramatists 0 1
0
Michael Drayton, *Poems:* Newnes's Pocket Classics 0 3 6
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, *Works:* New Universal Library 0 1 0
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, *Works:* Globe Edition 0 3 6
Thomas Campion, *Poems:* Muses' Library 0 1 0
Ben Jonson, *Plays:* Canterbury Poets 0 1 0
John Donne, *Poems:* Muses' Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
John Webster, Cyril Tourneur, *Plays:* Mermaid Series 0 2 6
Philip Massinger, *Plays:* Cunningham Edition 0 3 6
Beaumont and Fletcher, *Plays: a Selection:* Canterbury Poets 0 1
0
John Ford, *Plays:* Mermaid Series 0 2 6
George Herbert, *The Temple:* Everyman's Library 0 1 0
ROBERT HERRICK, *Poems:* Muses' Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Edmund Waller, *Poems:* Muses' Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Sir John Suckling, *Poems:* Muses' Library 0 1 0
Abraham Cowley, *English Poems:* Cambridge University Press 0 4 6
Richard Crashaw, *Poems:* Muses' Library 0 1 0
Henry Vaughan, *Poems:* Methuen's Little Library 0 1 6
Samuel Butler, *Hudibras:* Cambridge University Press 0 4 6
JOHN MILTON, *Poetical Works:* Oxford Cheap Edition 0 2 0
JOHN MILTON, *Select Prose Works:* Scott Library 0 1 0
Andrew Marvell, *Poems:* Methuen's Little Library 0 1 6
John Dryden, *Poetical Works:* Globe Edition 0 3 6
[Thomas Percy], *Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:*
Everyman's Library (2 vols.) 0 2 0
Arber's *"Spenser" Anthology:* Oxford University Press 0 2
0
Arber's *"Jonson" Anthology:* Oxford University Press 0 2 0
Arber's *"Shakspere" Anthology:* Oxford University Press 0 2 0
£3 7 6
There were a number of brilliant minor writers in the seventeenth century
whose best work, often trifling in bulk, either scarcely merits
the acquisition of a separate volume for each author,
or cannot be obtained at all in a modern edition. Such authors,
however, may not be utterly neglected in the formation of a library.
It is to meet this difficulty that I have included
the last three volumes on the above list. Professor Arber's anthologies
are full of rare pieces, and comprise admirable specimens of the verse
of Samuel Daniel, Giles Fletcher, Countess of Pembroke, James I.,
George Peele, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Sackville, Sir Philip Sidney,
Drummond of Hawthornden, Thomas Heywood, George Wither,
Sir Henry Wotton, Sir William Davenant, Thomas Randolph,
Frances Quarles, James Shirley, and other greater and lesser poets.
I have included all the important Elizabethan dramatists except
John Marston, all the editions of whose works, according to my researches,
are out of print.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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