About the Book
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. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
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Volume 2: PREFACE INTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TEXT The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849) 1 CHARLES KINGSLEY, review in Fraser’s Magazine, May 1849 2 W.E.AYTOUN, review in Blackwood’s Magazine, September 1849 3 W.M.ROSSETTI, review in Germ, February 1850 Empedocles on Etna (1852) 4 G.D.BOYLE, review in North British Review, May 1853 5 A.H.CLOUGH, review in North American Review, July 1853 Poems (1853, 1854, 1855) 6 G.H.LEWES, review in Leader, November-December 1853 7 J.A.FROUDE, review in Westminster Review, January 1854 8 J.D.COLERIDGE, review in Christian Remembrancer, April 1854 9 COVENTRY PATMORE, review in North British Review, August 1854 10 Arnold in response to critics of his preface, 1854 11 GEORGE ELIOT, review in Westminster Review, July 1855 12 Other comments on the early volumes Merope (1857, dated 1858) 13 JOHN CONINGTON, review in Fraser’s Magazine, June 1858 14 Other comments on Merope 15 LESLIE STEPHEN, review in Saturday Review, September 1867 16 A.C.SWINBURNE, review in Fortnightly Review, October 1867 17 I.G.ASCHER, review in St. James’s Magazine, February 1868 18 H.B.FORMAN, review in Tinsley’s Magazine, September 1868 19 ALFRED AUSTIN, review in Temple Bar, August 1869 20 Other comments from the 1860s The 1870s 21 R.H.HUTTON, review in British Quarterly Review, April 1872 22 H.G.HEWLETT, review in Contemporary Review, September 1874 23 Notice in Saturday Review, September 1877 24 J.B.BROWN in Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, 1878 25 More views from the 1870s The 1880s 26 WALT WHITMAN, essay in Critic (New York), November 1883 27 HENRY JAMES, review in English Illustrated Magazine, January 1884 28 W.E.HENLEY, review in Athenaeum, August 1885 29 EDWARD CLODD, review in Gentleman’s Magazine, April 1886 30 JOSEPH JACOBS, obituary in Athenaeum, April 1888 31 FREDERIC MYERS, obituary in Fortnightly Review, May 1888 32 H.D.TRAILL, obituary in Contemporary Review, June 1888 33 MOWBRAY MORRIS, essay in Quarterly Review, October 1888 34 ROWLAND PROTHERO, essay in Edinburgh Review, October 1888 35 EDWARD DOWDEN, essay in Atlanta, September 1889 336 More comments from the 1880s The 1890s 37 LIONEL JOHNSON, review in Academy, January1891 38 MRS OLIPHANT in The Victorian Age of English Literature, 1892 39 GEORGE SAINTSBURY, ‘Corrected Impressions’ in Collected Essays and Papers, 1895 40 HUGH WALKER in The Greater Victorian Poets, 1895 41 FREDERIC HARRISON in Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, 1899 42 Other comments from the 1890s BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
