John Donne II: The Critical Heritage (Critical Heritage Series)
The writings in this second volume on Donne cover the years between 1873 and 1923. The collection includes commentary and criticism from Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augistin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and many others. Together these works record the evolution of critical views on Donne from nineteenth century onwards, and his growing importance in the twentieth-century literary canon.
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 students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries.
The plays of Philip Massinger (1583-1640) have been a focus of controversy since their creation. In their own time, the plays contributed to contemporary arguments about appropriate dramatic language. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries they were crucial to the rediscovery of Renaissance drama outside Shakespeare. Today, they are at the center of recent reevaluation of the politics of seventeenth century theatre.
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 students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.
