(The) English critical tradition [vol - I] : an anthology of english literary criticism / by S. Ramaswami and V. S. Seturaman

Includes notes

From the art of rhetorique -- Thomas Wilson From the schoolmaster -- Roger Ascham From the school of abuse -- Stephen Gosson Thomas Lodge -- Defence of poetry An apologie for poetrie -- George Puttenham From the dedication of Achilles Shield -- George Chapman From a defence of ryme -- Samuel Daniel From every man out of his humor -- Ben Jonson An essay of dramatic poesy -- John Dryden Preface to the fables -- John Dryden An essay on criticism -- Alexander Pope From The life of Cowley -- Samuel Johnson From The life of Milton -- Samuel Johnson Preface to Shakespeare -- Samuel Johnson Poetry and poetic diction -- William Wordsworth Biographia literaria Chapter XIV -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia literaria Chapter XVII -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge A defence of poetry -- Percy Bysshe Shelley From the letters -- John Keats On the tragedies of Shakespeare -- Charles Lamb On the artificial comedy of the last century -- Charles Lamb "Macbeth", from characters of Shakespeare's Plays -- William Hazlitt On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth -- Thomas de Quincey