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1 The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from essays in the history of criticism to journalism
and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material
such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from
later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the
fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an
introduction to the writer's published works, a selected
bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The
"Collected Critical Heritage" set is available as a set of 68
volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) or as
individual volumes.
In this original and significant contribution to literary
controversy, first published in 1989, Professor Jackson argues on
semantic grounds that historical criticism, which he defines as the
attempt to read works of literature and criticism as they were read
when they were new, is a necessary preliminary to other ways of
approaching the literature of the past. He distinguishes between
the difficulties inherent in the practice of historical critics and
the problems encountered by historians. Historical criticism as he
describes it is an ideal that has yet to be attained and he
explores strategies for coming closer to it. This title will be of
interest to students of literature.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and
researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early
performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first
publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources
range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to
journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published
documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant
pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order
to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each
volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a
selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
First published in 1969, this book places Coleridge's literary
criticism against the background of his philosophical thinking,
examining his theories about criticism and the nature of poetry.
Particular attention is paid to the structure of Biographia
Literaria, Coleridge's distinction between Imagination and Fancy,
his definitions of the poetic characters of Shakespeare and
Wordsworth, his analysis of the mental state of audiences in
theatres, and his interpretations of Paradise Lost, Hamlet and
Aeschylus' Prometheus. The emphasis throughout is on how Coleridge
thought rather than what he thought and the process rather than the
conclusions of his criticism.
First published in 1980. This title provides a critical and
historical account of poetry written between 1780 and 1835. The
author has been especially concerned to place the great poems and
poets of the age in the context of the conventions and traditions
in which they wrote, offering new perspectives on familiar works.
Poems still famous are examined often in relation to works of a
similar kind fashionable at the time but now neglected, and these
unconventional groupings throw fresh light on Romantic poetry as a
whole. An appendix is included, designed to be read as a supplement
to the main text, serving both as a chronology and as a brief guide
to works that do not fall within the scope of the main argument.
This title will be of interest to students of literature.
The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from essays in the history of criticism to journalism
and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material
such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from
later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the
fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an
introduction to the writer's published works, a selected
bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The
"Collected Critical Heritage" set is available as a set of 68
volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) or as
individual volumes.
In this original and significant contribution to literary
controversy, first published in 1989, Professor Jackson argues on
semantic grounds that historical criticism, which he defines as the
attempt to read works of literature and criticism as they were read
when they were new, is a necessary preliminary to other ways of
approaching the literature of the past. He distinguishes between
the difficulties inherent in the practice of historical critics and
the problems encountered by historians. Historical criticism as he
describes it is an ideal that has yet to be attained and he
explores strategies for coming closer to it. This title will be of
interest to students of literature.
First published in 1980. This title provides a critical and
historical account of poetry written between 1780 and 1835. The
author has been especially concerned to place the great poems and
poets of the age in the context of the conventions and traditions
in which they wrote, offering new perspectives on familiar works.
Poems still famous are examined often in relation to works of a
similar kind fashionable at the time but now neglected, and these
unconventional groupings throw fresh light on Romantic poetry as a
whole. An appendix is included, designed to be read as a supplement
to the main text, serving both as a chronology and as a brief guide
to works that do not fall within the scope of the main argument.
This title will be of interest to students of literature.
First published in 1969, this book places Coleridge's literary
criticism against the background of his philosophical thinking,
examining his theories about criticism and the nature of poetry.
Particular attention is paid to the structure of Biographia
Literaria, Coleridge's distinction between Imagination and Fancy,
his definitions of the poetic characters of Shakespeare and
Wordsworth, his analysis of the mental state of audiences in
theatres, and his interpretations of Paradise Lost, Hamlet and
Aeschylus' Prometheus. The emphasis throughout is on how Coleridge
thought rather than what he thought and the process rather than the
conclusions of his criticism.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
This book is the first major bibliography of women's writings of
the Romantic period, providing exhaustive coverage of the volumes
of verse written by women in English during this crucial period.
The Bibliography lists 1,403 works (and 2,585 editions) by about
900 authors and reveals for the first time the scale of the
involvement of women in the Romantic movement. It covers
publications of eight pages and longer, including publications in
foreign languages and translations from foreign languages, and is
fully indexed and cross-referenced with complete publication
details. Jackson's meticulous work will be indispensable to all
scholars and students researching women's poetry of the Romantic
age.
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