Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787): A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William; Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George CanningWagstaffe, William
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Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787): A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William; Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning
Wagstaffe, William
Ballads, English -- England -- History and criticism; Parodies
22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two
_Rambler_ papers (1750). [#13350]
23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681). [#15074]
24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which
from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and
Rejecting Epigrams_, translated by J. V. Cunningham.
*Fifth Year (1950-1951)*
25. Thomas Baker's _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709). [#14467]
26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792). [#14463]
27. Out of print.
[Frances Reynolds' _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste,
and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc._ (1785). [#13485] ]
28. John Evelyn's _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and
_A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). [#17833]
29. Daniel Defoe's _A Vindication of the Press_ (1718). [#14084]
30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's _Letters Concerning
Taste_, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's _Miscellanies_
(1770). [#13464]
*Sixth Year (1951-1952)*
31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751);
and _The Eton College Manuscript_. [#15409]
32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudery's Preface to _Ibrahim_
(1674), etc. [#14525]
33. Henry Gally's _A Critical Essay_ on Characteristic-Writings (1725).
[#16299]
34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).
35. James Roswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. _Critical
Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David
Malloch_ (1763). [#15857]
36. Joseph Harris's _The City Bride_ (1696). [In preparation]
*Seventh Year (1952-1953)*
37. Thomas Morrison's _A Pindarick Ode on Painting_ (1767). [In
preparation]
38. John Phillips' _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ (1655).
39. Thomas Warton's _A History of English Poetry_.
40. Edward Bysshe's _The Art of English Poetry_ (1708).
41. Bernard Mandeville's "A Letter to Dion" (1732).
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.
*Eighth Year (1953-1954)*
43. John Baillie's _An Essay on the Sublime_ (1747).
44. Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski's _The Odes of Casimire_, Translated
by G. Hils (1646).
45. John Robert Scott's _Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts._
46. Selections from Seventeenth Century Songbooks.
47. Contemporaries of the _Tatler_ and _Spectator_.
48. Samuel Richardson's Introduction to _Pamela_.
*Ninth Year (1954-1955)*
49. Two St. Cecilia's Day Sermons (1696-1697).
50. Hervey Aston's _A Sermon Before the Sons of the Clergy_ (1745).
51. Lewis Maidwell's _An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of
Education_ (1705).
52. Pappity Stampoy's _A Collection of Scotch Proverbs_ (1663). [#7018]
53. Urian Oakes' _The Soveriegn Efficacy of Divine Providence_ (1682).
54. Mary Davys' _Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady_
(1725).
*Tenth Year (1955-1956)*
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