NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH PROSE

Critical Essays

Edited with Introductions and Notes by THOMAS H. DICKINSON, Ph.D., and FREDERICK W. ROE, A. M., Assistant Profcssors of Eriglish, University of Wisconsin.

THIS book for collège classes présents a séries of ten selected essays, which are intended to trace the dcvclopment of English criticism in the nineteenth ccntury. The essays cover a definite period, and exhibit the individuality of each author's method of criticism. In cach case they are those most typical of the author's critical principles, and at the same time représentative of the critical tendencies of his âge. The subject-matter provides interesting material for intensive study and class room discussion, and each essay is an example of excellent, though varying, style.

^ They represent not onïy the authors who write, but the authors who are treated. The essays provide the bcst things that hâve been said by England's critics on Swift, on Scott, on Macaulay, and on Emerson.

^ The introductions and notes provide the necessary biographical matter, suggestive points for the use of the teacher in stimulating discussion of the form or content of the essays, and such aids as will eliminate those matters of détail that might prove stumbling blocks to the student. Though the essays are in chronological order, they may be treated at random according to the purposes of the teacher.

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