Elizabethan Critical Essays

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The work Elizabethan Critical Essays is a collection of critical essays from the Elizabethan era edited by the Scottish literary historian George Gregory Smith (1865-1932) . The work first appeared in 1904 and was reprinted several times. The most important prose texts of the time are combined in the work.

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  • Roger Ascham , The Scholemaster, 1570
  • Richard Willes , Poematum Liber., 1573
  • George Gascoigne , Certayne Notes of Instruction, 1575
  • George Whetstone , Dedication to Promos and Cassandra, 1578
  • Thomas Lodge , A Defense of Poetry, 1579
  • Spencer-Harvey correspondence 1579-80
  • 'EK', Epistle Dedicatory to The Shepheards Calender, 1579
  • Richard Stanyhurst , Dedication and Preface to Aeneid, 1582
  • Philip Sidney , An Apologie for Poetrie, 1583/95
  • King James VI , Ane Schort Treatise conteining some Reulis and autelis to be obseruit and eschewit in Scottis Poesie, 1584
  • William Webbe , A Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586
  • Abraham Fraunce , The Arcadian Rhetorike, 1588
  • Thomas Nashe , Preface to Greene's Menaphon, 1589
  • Anatomy of Absurdity, 1589
  • Puttenham, The Arte of English Poetry, 1589
  • John Harington , A Preface, or rather a Briefe Apologie of Poetrie (prefixed to Orlando Furioso)
  • Thomas Nashe , Preface to Astrophel and Stella, 1591
  • Gabriel Harvey , Pierce's Supererogation (1593) and A New Letter of Notable Contents, 1593
  • Richard Carew , The Excellency of the English Tongue,? 1595-6
  • George Chapman , Preface to Seuen Bookes of the Iliades of Homere, 1598, and dedication of Achilles Shield, 1598
  • Francis Meres , Palladis Tamia, 1598

Bibliographical information

  • G. Gregory Smith, (ed.): Elizabethan Critical Essays. Edited with an Introduction by G. Gregory Smith. 2 volumes. Oxford University Press, 1959 (reprint of the 1904 edition) ( online ; PDF; 22.1 MB)

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