Earl of Rochester

The Critical Heritage

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-75667-9 (ISBN)

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Edited by David Farley-Hills

INTRODUCTION 1 Contemporary comments (1672–80) 1 JOHN CROWNE on Rochester, 1672 17 2 NATHANAEL LEE, a) from the dedication of Nero 1674 19 b) from The Princess of Cleves 1681 19 3 JOHN DRYDEN, 4 FRANCIS FANE, a) from the dedication to Love in the Dark 1675 27 b) ‘To the late Earl of Rochester’ 27 5 SIR CARR SCROOPE, an epigram answering an attack by Rochester 1677 31 6 Anonymous, Advice to Apollo 1678 33 7 JOHN SHEFFIELD, EARL OF MULGRAVE, a) from An Essay upon Satire 1679 35 b) from An Essay upon Poetry 1682 36 8 CHARLES BLOUNT, from a letter to Rochester 1680 39 Comment at Rochester’s death (1680–1700) 9 ROBERT PARSONS, from his sermon at Rochester’s funeral 1680 41 10 GILBERT BURNET, Some Passages of the Life and Death of Rochester 1680 43 11 GILBERT BURNET, from the History of the Reign of King Charles II 1753 69 12 JOHN OLDHAM, Elegy on Rochester 1680 71 13 a) APHRA BEHN, Elegy on Rochester 1680 79 b) ANNE WHARTON, Lines to Mrs Behn 81 c) APHRA BEHN, Lines to Mrs Wharton 82 14 a) ANNE WHARTON, Elegy on Rochester 1680 85 b) EDMUND WALLER, Lines on Mrs Wharton’s Elegy on Rochester 85 c) JOHN HOWE, Lines on Mrs Wharton’s Elegy on Rochester 85 d) ROBERT WOLSELEY, Lines on Mrs Wharton’s Elegy on Rochester 86 15 Anonymous, An Elegy upon the death of Rochester 1680 89 16 Anonymous, On the Death of the Earl of Rochester 1680 93 17 THOMAS FLATMAN, Pastoral on the death of Rochester 1680 95 18 SAMUEL WOODFORD, Ode to the Memory of Rochester 1680 97 19 SAMUEL HOLLAND, Elegy on Rochester 1680 109 20 Anonymous lines on Rochester, from Metamorphoses c. 1684 113 21 Three Prologues to Valentinian 1684 115 22 a) ROBERT WOLSELEY, Preface to Valentinian 1685 121 b) ANNE WHARTON, Lines to Wolseley 134 23 WILLIAM WINSTANLEY, from his Life of Rochester 1686 137 24 MATTHEW PRIOR, two references to Rochester 1687 139 25 TOM DURFEY, ‘A Lash at Atheists’ 1690 141 26 THOMAS RYMER, Preface to Rochester’s Poems on Several Occasions 1691 145 27 ANTHONY À WOOD, from Athenae Oxonienses 1692 149 28 TOM BROWN, from A Short Essay on English Satire c. 1692 153 29 JOHN AUBREY’s Brief Life of Rochester (before 1697) 157 30 THOMAS DILKE, from The City Lady 1697 159 31 ISAAC WATTS on Rochester 161 Rochester Acclaimed (1700–50) 32 JOHN DENNIS, some allusions to Rochester a) Preface to Miscellanies in Verse and Prose, 1693 163 b) The Epistle Dedicatory to the Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry, 1701 164 c) Preface to Remarks upon Mr Pope’s Translation of Homer, 1717 164 vii 33 PIERRE BAYLE, from the Historical and Philosophical Dictionary 1702 165 34 An anonymous essay on Rochester 1707 167 35 DANIEL DEFOE, some remarks on Rochester from the Review 1706–13 169 36 ANTHONY HAMILTON, from the Memoirs of Count Grammont 1713 171 37 THOMAS DRYAR’S edition of the poems, from the Preface 1718 173 38 GILES JACOB’s life and character of Rochester 1720 175 39 DANIEL DEFOE [?] from a Life of Sedley 1721 177 40 POPE and SPENCE on Rochester (from Spence’s Anecdotes) 1728–43 179 41 VOLTAIRE on Rochester a) Letter from the Lettres Philosophiques 1729 181 b) from Chapter 7 of the Histoire de Jenni 1775 182 42 FRANCIS LOCKIER on Rochester (from Spence’s Anecdotes) 1730 183 Growing disapproval (1750–1800) 43 ROBERT SHIELS, from ‘Mr. Cibber’s’ Life of Rochester 1753 185 44 DAVID HUME on Rochester 1757 187 45 HORACE WALPOLE disapproves 1758 189 46 From the Preface to The Poetical Works of Rochester 1761 191 47 DR. JOHNSON’s essay on Rochester from Lives of the English Poets 1779 193 48 JOSEPH WARTON on Rochester in the Essay on Pope 1782 197 49 ROBERT ANDERSON, from his Life of Rochester 1795 199 Rochester in eclipse: Criticism (1800–50) 50 COOKE’s edition of The Poetical Works of the Earl of Rochester, from the Preface 1800 201 51 A comment on Rochester from the Edinburgh Review July 1806 203 52 THOMAS PARK on Rochester 1806 205 53 ISAAC D’ISRAELI on Rochester’s satire from Quarrels of Authors 1814 207 54 GOETHE quotes the Satire against Mankind 1814 209 55 WILLIAM HAZLITT on Rochester a) from Lectures on the English Poets 1818 211 b) from Select British Poets 1824 211 viii 56 An anonymous aside from the Retrospective Review 1820 Part Contents/

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.5.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-75667-7 / 0415756677
ISBN-13	978-0-415-75667-9 / 9780415756679
Zustand	Neuware