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 is available as a set of 68 volumes and the series is also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON THE TEXT INTRODUCTION First Promise 1 A wanderer in the fields of fancy, 1816 32 LEIGH HUNT introduces a new poet, 1816 3 WORDSWORTH on Keats, 1817, 1820 Poems (1817) 4 Review in Champion, 1817 5 Notice in Monthly Magazine, 1817 6 G. F. MATHEW on Keats's Poems, 1817 7 LEIGH HUNT announces a new school of poetry, 1817 8 A very facetious rhymer, 1817 9 Review in Scots Magazine, 1817 Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818) 10 Letters and prefaces, 1818 11 Review in Literary Journal, 1818 12 BAILEY advertises Endymion, 1818 13 A great original work, 1818 14 A monstrously droll poem, 1818 15 LOCKHART'S attack in Blackwood's, 1818 16 CROKBR'S attack in the Quarterly, 1818 17 A protest against the Quarterly, 1818 18 RBYNOLDS also protests, 1818 19 SHBLLBY on Keats, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822 20 BYRON on the 'Trash of Keats', 1820, 1821-2 21 Not a poem, but a dream of poetry, 1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820) 22 Keats's indelicacy alarms his friends, 1819 23 CLARE on Keats, 1820, 1821, 1825-37 24 Prodigal phrases, 1820 25 Review in Monthly Review, 1820 26 Notice in Literary Chronicle, 1820 27 IBIGH HUNT displays Keats's 'calm power', 1820 28 Review in Guardian, 1820 29 Review in London Magazine (Gold's) 1820 30 JEFFREY on Keats, 1820, 1829, 1848 31 Review in Edinburgh Magazine (Scots Magazine) 1820 32 Review in New Monthly Magazine, 1820 33 Review in London Magazine (Baldwin's) 1820 34 Notice in Monthly Magazine, 1820 35 Review in British Critic, 1820 36 A mischief at the core, 1820 37 Error and imagination, 1820 Obituaries 38 The death of Mr John Keats, 1821 39 The death of genius, 1821 40 The death of a radically presumptuous profligate, 1821 Posthumous Reputation 41 HAZLITT on Keats, 1821, 1822, 1824 42 LEIGH HUNT: retrospective views of Keats, 1828,1859 43 A Titan in spirit, 1828 44 LANDOR on Keats, 1828, 1846, 1848, 1850, undated 45 Memoir in Galignani's edition, 1829 46 The significance of Keats's work, 1831 47 The Quarterly is unrepentant, 1833 48 A misleading textbook account, 1834 49 A commentary on two poems, 1835, 1844. 50 A good half-poet, 1840 51 BLIZABBTH BARRETT BROWNING On Keats, 1841, 1842, 1844, 1856 52 'ORION' HORNE on Keats, 1844 53 An American dialogue on Keats, 1845 54 GILFILLAN on Keats, 1845, 1850, 1854 55 DB QUINCEY on Keats, 1846, 1857 56 Unsurpassed vigour and acumen, 1847 Milnes's Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848) 57 Keats's first biography, 1848, 1854 58 Justice in the market-place, 1848 59 ARNOLD on Keats, 1848, 1849, 1852, 1853 60 Review in Gentleman's Magazine, 1848 61 The sensual school of poetry, 1848 62 Shelley, Keats and Tennyson compared, 1849 Established Fame 63 The language of actual life, .1851 64 BAGBHOT on Keats, 1853, 1856, 1859 65 Ideas made concrete, 1853 66 LOWELL on Keats, 1854 367 CARDINAL WISBMAN on Keats, 1855 68 Keats in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1857 69 A rich intellectual foundation, 1860 70 COWDEN CLARKB on Keats, 1861 71 JOSBPH SEVERN looks back, 1863 4APPBNDIX: THE PRINCIPAL BARLY EDITIONS OF KEATS'S BIBLIOGRAPHY SELECT INDEX
