Biographical and Critical History of the British Literature of the Last Fifty YearsBaudry's Foreign Library, 1834 - 348 стор. Originally written as a series of articles for the Athenaeum periodical from 1830 to 1834, this collection (not published in volume form in Britain) contains critical essays, in sections titled Poetry (Bowles, Byron, Cowper, Lamb, Scott, Wordsworth, &c.), Novels & Romances (Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, Godwin, Hogg, Ann Radcliffe, &c.), History (D'Israeli, Scott, Southey, &c.), Biography (William Hayley, Leigh Hunt, J.G. Lockhart, &c.), Drama (Joanna Baillie, Byron, Coleridge, Croly, Miss Mitford, &c.), Criticism (Lord Brougham, John Wilson Croker, William Hazlitt, Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, &c.) and The Effect of the Cultivation of Oriental Literature on the General Literature of England. |
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