William Congreve: The Critical Heritage

by Erskine-Hill,Howard

• ISBN13: 9780415134316
• ISBN10: 0415134315
• 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. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk .

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xiv
Introduction	1	(55)
Part I The Early Reception, 1691--1700
Preface to Incognita, 1691	56	(2)
William Congreve
John Dryden on The Old Batchelour, 1692	58	(1)
Prefactory poems to The Old Batchelour, 1693	59	(4)
Peter Motteux in The Gentleman's Journal, 1693	63	(1)
Henry Higden in the Preface to The Wary Widdow, 1693	64	(2)
John Dryden in the dedication to Examen Poeticum, 1693	66	(1)
'To Mr. Congreve. An Epistolary Ode Occasion'd by his late Play', 1693	67	(3)
Thomas Yalden
'To Mr. Congreve', 1693	70	(7)
Jonathan Swift
Epistle Dedicatory to The Double-Dealer, 1693	77	(5)
William Congreve
The Double-Dealer, 1693	82	(2)
John Dryden
'To Mr. Congreve', 1693	84	(1)
William Dove
Joseph Addison in 'An Account of the Greatest English Poets', 1694	85	(1)
Charles Hopkins in 'To Walter Moyle, Esq.', 1694	86	(1)
Anon. in The Mourning Poets, 1695	87	(1)
Edward Howard in the Proem to An Essay upon Pastoral, 1695	88	(2)
'Concerning Humour in Comedy', 1695	90	(8)
William Congreve
William Pittis in An Epistolary Poem to N. Tate, Esquire, 1696	98	(3)
'To Mr. Congreve, on his Tragedy, the Mourning Bride', 1697	101	(1)
Catharine Trotter
Sir Richard Blackmore in the Preface to King Arthur, 1697	102	(2)
dedication of Boadicea, Queen of Britain, 1697	104	(2)
Charles Hopkins
Anon. in The Justice of Peace, 1697	106	(2)
Jermy Collier in A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage, 1698	108	(7)
Elkanah Settle in A Defence of Dramatick Poetry, 1698	115	(1)
William Congreve in Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations, 1698	116	(17)
Anon. in A Letter to Mr. Congreve, 1698	133	(5)
Anon. in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, 1698	138	(1)
Jeremy Collier in A Defence of the Short View, 1698	139	(21)
Anon. in Some Remarks upon Mr. Collier's Defence, 1698	160	(3)
Charles Gildon in A Letter to Mr. Congreve, Occasion'd by the Death of the Countess Dowager of Manchester, 1698	163	(1)
Anon. in 'A Session of the Poets', 1698	164	(1)
John Oldmixon in Reflections on the Stage, 1699	165	(2)
James Drake in The Ancient and Modern Stages Survey'd, 1699	167	(2)
Charles Hopkins in 'An Epistle from Mr. Charles Hopkins to Mr. Yalden in Oxon.', 1699	169	(1)
Charles Gildon in Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, 1699?	170	(5)
Sir Richard Blackmore in A Satyr against Wit, 1699	175	(1)
dedication of The Way of the World, 1700	176	(3)
William Congreve
Samuel Wesley in An Epistle to a Friend concerning Poetry, 1700	179	(1)
Samuel Cobb in Poetae Britannici, 1700	180	(1)
Daniel Kenrick in A New Session of the Poets, Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Dryden, 1700	181	(1)
Anon. in An Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, 1700	182	(2)
Part II The Eighteenth-Century Response, 1701--93
'Epistle to Mr. Congreve, occasion'd by his Comedy call'd The Way of the World', 1701	184	(2)
Richard Steele
Anon. in A Comparison between the Two Stages, 1702	186	(2)
Anon. in The Tryal of Skill, 1704	188	(2)
Richard Steele on The Old Batchelour and 'Doris', 1709--13	190	(3)
John Dennis in Remarks upon Mr. Pope's Translation of Homer, 1717	193	(2)
Richardson Pack in 'Of Study', 1719	195	(1)
Giles Jacob in The Poetical Register, 1719	195	(3)
'To the Memory of Mr. Congreve', 1729	198	(1)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Jonathan Swift in a letter to Viscount Bolingbroke and Alexander Pope, 1729	199	(1)
'A Poem to the Memory of Mr. Congreve', 1729	200	(5)
David Mallet
Anon. in An Epistle to Lord Viscount Cobham, 1730	205	(6)
miscellaneous comments	211	(1)
Alexander Pope
Francois---Marie Arouet De Voltaire in Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1733	212	(1)
William Popple in The Prompter, 1735	213	(3)
Anon. in The Daily Gazetteer, 1737	216	(1)
Henry Fielding in The Champion, 1739	217	(1)
Samuel Foote in The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd and Compar'd, 1747	218	(1)
Edmund Burke in The Reformer, 1748	219	(1)
William Melmoth on Congreve's translations of Homer, 1750	220	(4)
John Campbell and Andrew Kippis in Biographia Britannica, 1750 and 1789	224	(5)
Joseph Warton in The Adventurer, 1754	229	(1)
Arthur Murphy in The Gray's Inn Journal, 1754	230	(1)
Arthur Murphy (?), three reviews in The London Chronicle, 1757--8	231	(5)
Charles Churchill in The Rosciad, 1761	236	(1)
Arthur Murphy in 'An Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, Esq;', 1762	237	(2)
Lord Kames in Elements of Criticism, 1762--3	239	(6)
Henry Home
Samuel Johnson in The Life of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D., by James Boswell, 1769	245	(1)
Francis Gentleman in The Dramatic Censor, 1770	246	(4)
Anon., review of The Way of the World in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 1775	250	(2)
William Mason in 'Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Gray', 1775	252	(1)
Horace Walpole in 'Thoughts on Comedy', 1775--6	253	(2)
Anon., review of The Way of the World in The Morning Chronicle, 1776	255	(1)
Fanny Burney in Evelina, 1778	256	(4)
'Congreve', 1781	260	(11)
Samuel Johnson
Hugh Blair in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters, 1783	271	(2)
Thomas Davies in Dramatic Miscellanies, 1784	273	(19)
Anon., review of The Way of the World in The Public Advertiser, 1784	292	(1)
Charles Este (?), reviews of Love for Love and The Mourning Bride in The World, 1787	293	(3)
'Censor Dramaticus' in The Thespian Magazine, 1792	296	(4)
Part III The Nineteenth Century and After, 1802--1913
Anon., reviews of The Double-Dealer and The Mourning Bride in The Monthly Mirror, 1802-7	300	(2)
Anon., 'On the Character of Congreve as a Writer of Comedy', 1804	302	(8)
Elizabeth Inchbald on Love for Love, 1808	310	(1)
William Hazlitt on Congreve, 1816--19	311	(8)
Richard Cumberland in The British Drama, 1817	319	(9)
Lord Byron in his letters to John Murray, 1820--1	328	(1)
George Gordon
Charles Lamb in The London Magazine, 1822	329	(4)
James Boaden on Congreve, 1827--31	333	(9)
Hartley Coleridge in Biographia Borealis, with the annotations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833	342	(9)
Leigh Hunt in the Introduction to The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, 1840	351	(13)
Thomas Babington Macaulay in 'Comic Dramatists of the Restoration', 1841	364	(13)
Reviews of Love for Love and The Way of the World in The Times, 1842	377	(10)
William Makepeace Thackeray in The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, 1851	387	(6)
Charles Cowden Clarke in 'Congreve and Wycherley', 1871	393	(9)
George Meredith in 'On the Idea of Comedy, and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit', 1877	402	(3)
'Congreve', 1877	405	(4)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Oswald Crawfurd in English Comic Dramatists, 1883	409	(2)
Edmund Gosse, in The Life of William Congreve, 1888	411	(9)
W. E. Henley reviews Edmund Gosse's William Congreve, 1888	420	(5)
Walter Raleigh in The English Novel, 1894	425	(2)
G. S. Street in the Introduction to The Comedies of William Congreve, 1895	427	(11)
Sir Leslie Stephen in English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century, 1904	438	(5)
A. B. Walkley, review of The Way of the World in the Times Literary Supplement, 1904	443	(4)
William Archer in the Introduction to William Congreve, 1912	447	(16)
Charles Whibley in The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1912	463	(12)
John Palmer in The Comedy of Manners, 1913	475
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