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Title: An English Garner
Critical Essays & Literary Fragments

Author: Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe

Release Date: December 18, 2003 [EBook #10489]

Language: English

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AN ENGLISH GARNER

CRITICAL ESSAYS
AND
LITERARY FRAGMENTS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
J. CHURTON COLLINS

1903

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

The texts contained in the present volume are reprinted with very slight
alterations from the _English Garner_ issued in eight volumes (1877-1890,
London, 8vo.) by Professor Arber, whose name is sufficient guarantee for
the accurate collation of the texts with the rare originals, the old
spelling being in most cases carefully modernised. The contents of the
original _Garner_ have been rearranged and now for the first time
classified, under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas
Seccombe. Certain lacunae have been filled by the interpolation of fresh
matter. The Introductions are wholly new and have been written specially
for this issue. The references to volumes of the _Garner_ (other than the
present volume) are for the most part to the editio princeps, 8 vols.
1877-90.

CONTENTS

I. Extract from Thomas Wilson's _Art of Rhetoric_, 1554
II. Sir Philip Sidney's _Letter to his brother Robert_, 1580
III. Extract from Francis Meres's _Palladis Tamia_, 1598
IV. Dryden's _Dedicatory Epistle to the Rival Ladies_, 1664
V. Sir Robert Howard's _Preface to four new Plays_, 1665
VI. Dryden's _Essay of Dramatic Poesy_, 1668
VII. Extract from Thomas Ellwood's _History of Himself_, describing
his relations with Milton, 1713
VIII. Bishop Copleston's Advice to a Young Reviewer, 1807
IX. The Bickerstaff and Partridge Tracts, 1708
X. Gay's _Present State of Wit_, 1711
XI. Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721
XII. Steele's Dedicatory Epistle to Congreve, 1722
XIII. Extract from Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia, 1669