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 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.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF CHAUCER’S ‘WORKS’ UP TO 1933 1 RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The identity of all minds, 1837, 1849 (1850), 1856 2 RICHARD HENGIST HORNE, Translations, 1841 3 HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Homely, innocent, childish Chaucer, 1843 (1849) 4 ‘CHRISTOPHER NORTH’ (John Wilson), The allegory of love, 1845 5 SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS NICOLAS, A Life founded on documentary evidence, 1845 6 JOHN HENRY LEIGH HUNT, Geniality, singing, 1846, 1855 7 JAMES LORIMER, Chaucer is our Goethe, 1849 8 WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD, Chaucer’s irony, 1856 9 JOHN RUSKIN, Fimesis and other matters, 1856, 1865, 1870, 1873, 1876 10 WALTER BAGEHOT, A healthy sagacious man of the world with a symmetrical mind, 1858 11 UNKNOWN, Story, situation and beauty, 1859 12 FRANCIS JAMES CHILD, Final -e, 1863 (1869) 13 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, Creatures like ourselves, 1863 14 ALEXANDER SMITH, Chaucer the English Conservative, 1863 15 FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, Cordial affection for men and for nature, 1865 16 ‘MATTHEW BROWNE’ (William Brightly Rands), Chaucer the Laodicean, 1869 17 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Sincere, tender, humane, 1870 (1871) 18 STOPFORD A.BROOKE, Natural beauty, 1871 19 FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL, Work at Chaucer, 1873 20 JOHN WESLEY HALES, Pity and irony, 1873 21 WILLIAM MINTO, The spirit of chivalry, 1876 22 WILLIAM CYPLES, Incredible sentimentality, and the old wonder of sex, 1877 23 ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, Dramatist and novelist, 1879 24 MATTHEW ARNOLD, Chaucer lacks seriousness, 1880 25 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Chaucer’s scanning, 1880, 1881 26 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, The middle class, 1880, 1886 27 WILLIAM MORRIS, Gentleman and happy child, 1888 28 THOMAS RAYNSFORD LOUNSBURY, Chaucer avoids dull English seriousness, 1891 29 WILLIAM PATON KER, The commonplace transformed, 1895 30 F.J.SNELL, Chaucer is the most irresponsible of men, 1901 31 SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Irony and simple good English, 1905 (1926) 32 W.M.HART, Realism, unity and comic poetic justice, 1908 33 GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Chaucer’s humour, 1908 34 JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL, Daylight and romance, 1909 35 WILLIAM WITHERLE LAWRENCE, To show it as it was, 1911 36 GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE, A connected human comedy, 1912 37 EZRA POUND, Chaucer should be on every man’s shelf, 1914, 1918, 1927, 1934, 38 HARRIET MONROE, Chaucer and Langland, 1915 39 JOHN S.P.TATLOCK, Chaucer the Laodicean, 1916 40 ALDOUS HUXLEY, In love with the inevitably material, 1920 41 CAROLINE F.E.SPURGEON, Critics of Chaucer judge themselves not him, 1925 42 VIRGINIA WOOLF, The morality of the novel, 1925 43 JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY, From art to nature, 1926 44 MARIO PRAZ, Chaucer the merchantman, 1927 45 THOMAS FREDERICK TOUT, A prudent courtier, 1929 46 WILLIAM EMPSON, The ambiguity of Chaucer, 1930 47 JOHN LIVINGSTONE LOWES, A powerfully associative memory, 1930 48 CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS, What Chaucer really did to ‘Il Filostrato’, 1932 49 GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, Never a less typical poet, 1933 50 THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT, Is Chaucer less serious than Words-worth? 1933 51 ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN, Sensitive fidelity to nature, 1933 52 ROSEMOND TUVE. Chaucer and the seasons, 1933
