Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: The Critical Heritage

by Bloom,Edward A.

• ISBN13: 9780415134347
• ISBN10: 041513434X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(40)
Note on the Text	41	(1)
I Steele the Man
`The New Atlantis', 1709	42	(5)
Mary Delariviere Manley
`The British Censor', 1712	47	(5)
`The Character of Richard Steele Esq;', 1713	52	(6)
William Wagstaffe
`John Tutchin's Ghost to Richard Steele, Esq;', 1713	58	(3)
`An Invitation to Peace', 1714	61	(2)
John Arbuthnot
`The Case of Richard Steele', 1714	63	(1)
`The Steeleids', 1714	64	(4)
John Lacy
`On the Death of Sir Richard Steele', 1729	68	(1)
Benjamin Victor
`The Monument', 1729	69	(3)
Joseph Mitchell
`An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule', 1744	72	(1)
Corbyn Morris
`Letters, Conversations and Recollections', 1836	73	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
II Steele the Pamphleteer
`The Honour and Prerogative of the Queen's Majesty Vindicated', 1713	75	(5)
Daniel Defoe
`The Importance of the Guardian Considered', 1713	80	(18)
Jonathan Swift
`The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd', 1714	98	(3)
Jonathan Swift
Steele and Addison, The `Plebeian' and the `Old Whig', 1719	101	(5)
III Steele the Dramatist
`The Funeral', 1701
`A Comparison between the Two Stages', 1702	106	(10)
Charles Gildon
`Spectator' 51, 28 April 1711	116	(2)
Richard Steele
`The Tender Husband', 1705
`Pamela', vol. IV, Letter 15, 1741	118	(7)
Samuel Richardson
`The Fears of the Pretender', 1715	125	(4)
Daniel Defoe
Dedication to `Ximena', 1719	129	(3)
Colley Cibber
`The Characters and Conduct of Sir John Edgar', 1720, Letters I, IV	132	(17)
John Dennis
`Letters...to Mrs. Barbara Sandys' [1720], 1789	149	(1)
Thomas Rundle
`The Battle of the Authors, Lately Fought in Convent-Garden', 1720	150	(9)
John Dennis
`The Conscious Lovers', 1722
`A Defence of Sir Fopling Flutter', 1722	159	(10)
John Dennis
The `Freeholder's Journal', 14 November 1722	169	(3)
`An Epistle to Sir Richard Steele', 1722	172	(2)
Benjamin Victor
`Sir Richard Steele and his New Comedy', 1722	174	(9)
`Remarks on the Preface to the Conscious Lovers', 1723	183	(6)
John Dennis
`The Censor Censured', 1723	189	(12)
`To Sir Richard Steele On... The Conscious Lovers' [c. 1723], 1729	201	(2)
Joseph Mitchell
IV The `Tatler' 1709-11
`The Character of the Tatler', c. 1709	203	(4)
The `Examiner' on the `Tatler', 1710	207	(10)
`A Condoling Letter to the Tattler', 1710	217	(5)
`A Letter to Isaac Bickerstaff', 1710	222	(2)
William Cowper
`The Present State of Wit', 1711	224	(6)
John Gay
`A Dissertation on Reading the Classics' [1713], 1715	230	(1)
Henry Felton
V The `Spectator', 1711-12, 1714
`A Spy Upon the Spectator', 1711	231	(1)
`A Comment upon... Tom Thumb', 1711	232	(15)
William Wagstaffe
`A Letter from Will. Honeycomb to the ``Examiner''', 1714	247	(5)
`An Essay upon Wit', 1716	252	(1)
Sir Richard Blackmore
`The Complete Art of Poetry', 1718	253	(4)
Charles Gildon
`The Life of Addison', 1753	257	(2)
Theophilus Cibber
`Letters of Literature', 1785	259	(5)
Robert Heron
`Northanger Abbey', 1818	264	(2)
Jane Austen
VI Addison the Dramatist
The `Examiner', 27 April-1 May 1713	266	(5)
The `Flying Post', 1713	271	(3)
`Cato Examin'd', 1713	274	(7)
Charles Gildon
`Observations Upon Cato', 1713	281	(1)
George Sewell
`Remarks Upon Cato', 1713	282	(40)
John Dennis
The `Grumbler', 1715	322	(2)
`A Parallel' betwixt [Ozells `Cato of Utica'] and Addison's `Cato', 1716	324	(5)
`A Vindication of the English Stage', 1716	329	(4)
George Sewell
The `Freeholder's Journal', 1722	333	(2)
Steele on `The Drummer', 1716, 1722	335	(4)
VII Addison the Man and Writer
`The New Atalantis' [1710, 1711], 1736	339	(1)
Mary Delariviere Manley
`A Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and Forming a Just Style' [1713], 1715	340	(1)
Henry Felton
`To the Countess of Warwick on her Marriage with Mr. Addison', c. 1716	341	(1)
Leonard Welsted
`A Congratulatory Epistle to... Addison', 1717	342	(4)
Nicholas Amhurst
`Richy and Sandy', 1719	346	(2)
Allan Ramsay
`Elegy'(`To the ... Earl of Warwick'), 1721	348	(3)
Thomas Tickell
`Letters on Several Subjects', 1748	351	(2)
Thomas Fitzosborne
`An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope', 1756	353	(5)
Joseph Warton
`Conjectures on Original Composition', 1759	358	(8)
Edward Young
`Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres' [1760], 1783	366	(15)
Hugh Blair
`Letters concerning Taste', 1755	381	(3)
John Gilbert Cooper
`Essays Moral and Literary', 1779	384	(2)
Vicesimus Knox
`Lives of the Poets'---`Addison', 1781	386	(14)
Samuel Johnson
`An Essay on the Variations of English Prose, from the Revolution to the Present Time' [1796], 1797	400	(3)
Thomas Wallace
`Lectures on the English Comic Writers', 1819	403	(6)
William Hazitt
`Life and Writings of Addison', 1843	409	(33)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
`The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century', 1853	442	(10)
William Makepeace Thackeray
Select Bibliography	452	(7)
Index	459