Literary Theory

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCLI [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCLVII [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCLXIII [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCLXIX [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCXLV [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCXV [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCXXI [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCXXVII [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCXXXIII [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCCXXXIX [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCLXVII [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCLXXIII [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCLXXIX [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCLXXXV [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCXCI [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCXCVII [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CCXLIX [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. CLX [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. LXII [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. LXX [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. LXXIV [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  No. XL [in, The Spectator]  ●  1711

Dennis, John, 1657 -- 1734  ●  Reflections Critical and Satyrical ... By Mr. Dennis.  ●  1711

Pope, Alexander, 1688 -- 1744  ●  An Essay on Criticism  ●  1711

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671 -- 1713.  ●  Treatise II. viz. Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour. In a Letter to a Friend [in, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes]  ●  1711

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671 -- 1713.  ●  Treatise III. viz. Soliloquy: or Advice to an Author [in, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, In Three Volumes]  ●  1711

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671 -- 1713.  ●  Treatise VI. viz. Miscellaneous Reflections, [in, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes]  ●  1711

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671 -- 1713.  ●  1711

Trapp, Joseph, 1679 -- 1747  ●  Lectures on Poetry; Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy At Oxford, By Joseph Trapp ... Translated from the Latin, with additional Notes  ●  1711

Trapp, Joseph, 1679 -- 1747  ●  To ... William, Lord North and Grey [in, The Works of Virgil translated into English Blank Verse]  ●  1711

Swift, Jonathan, 1667 -- 1745  ●  A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue ...  ●  1712

Pope, Alexander, 1688 -- 1744  ●  The Guardian. No. 40 [in, The Guardian. Vol. 1; No. 40]  ●  1713

Steele, Richard, 1672 -- 1729  ●  The Guardian. No. XII  ●  1713

Tickell, Thomas, 1686 -- 1740  ●  Monday, April 6. 1713. [in The Guardian. Numb. XXII]  ●  1713

Tickell, Thomas, 1686 -- 1740  ●  No. 23. Tuesday April 7 [in, The Guardian]  ●  1713

Tickell, Thomas, 1686 -- 1740  ●  No. 30. Wednesday, April 15 [in. The Guardian]  ●  1713

Tickell, Thomas, 1686 -- 1740  ●  No. 32. Friday, April 17 [in, The Guardian ...]  ●  1713

Tickell, Thomas, 1686 -- 1740  ●  Numb. XXVIII [in, The Guardian]  ●  1713

Pope, Alexander, 1688 -- 1744  ●  No. 78. Wednesday, June 10 [in, The Guardian]  ●  1714

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671 -- 1713.  ●  A Letter Concerning the Art, or Science of Design ... [in, Characteristicks. Volume III ...]  ●  1714

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671 -- 1713.  ●  Treatise VII. viz. A Notion of the Historical Draught or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules ... [in, Characteristicks, Volume III ...]  ●  1714

Pope, Alexander, 1688 -- 1744  ●  An Essay on the Life, Writings and Learning, of Homer  ●  1715

Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729.  ●  An Essay on the Nature and Constitution of Epick Poetry [in, Essays upon Several Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore ...]  ●  1716

Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729.  ●  An Essay upon Writing [in, Essays upon Several Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore ...]  ●  1717

Parnell, Thomas, 1679 -- 1718.  ●  Preface [in, Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. With The Remarks of Zoilus. To which is Prefix'd, The Life of the said Zoilus]  ●  1717

Pope, Alexander, 1688 -- 1744  ●  A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry [in, The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope]  ●  1717

Dennis, John, 1657 -- 1734  ●  Of Prosody, By Mr. Dennis. [in, An Essay Towards a Practical English Grammar]  ●  1722

Hutcheson, Francis, 1694 -- 1746.  ●  An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, [in, An Inquiry Into The Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; In Two Treatises ...]  ●  1725

Pope, Alexander, 1688 -- 1744  ●  The Preface of the Editor [in, The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope]  ●  1725

Dennis, John, 1657 -- 1734  ●  The stage defended  ●  1726

Pope, Alexander, 1688 -- 1744  ●  Postscript [in, The Odyssey of Homer]  ●  1726

Spence, Joseph, 1699 -- 1768.  ●  An Essay On Pope's Odyssey: In which Some particular Beauties and Blemishes of that Work are consider'd  ●  1726

Thomson, James, 1700 -- 1748.  ●  The Preface [in, Winter. A Poem ... The Third Edition]  ●  1726

Pope, Alexander, 1688 -- 1744  ●  Peri Bathous: Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry [in Miscellanies ...]  ●  1728

Dennis, John, 1657 -- 1734  ●  Remarks upon Several Passages in the Preliminaries to the Dunciad ... and upon Several Passages in Pope's Preface to his Translation of Homer's Iliad ... By Mr. Dennis  ●  1729

Addison, Joseph, 1672 -- 1719  ●  A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning ... By the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq.  ●  1734

Benson, William, 1682 -- 1754.  ●  Letters Concerning Poetical Translations, And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse,  ●  1739

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  An Essay on Epitaphs [in, The Idler]  ●  1740

Hume, David, 1711 -- 1776  ●  Of Eloquence [in, Essays, Moral and Political. Volume II]  ●  1741

Hume, David, 1711 -- 1776  ●  Of Essay-writing [in, Essays, Moral and Political. Volume II]  ●  1741

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Preface [in, Joseph Andrews]  ●  1742

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  The Preface. [in, The Adventures of David Simple: Containing An Account of his Travels ... With a Preface by Henry Fielding]  ●  1744

Collins, William, 1721 -- 1759  ●  Ode on the Poetical Character [in, The poems of Thomas Gray: William Collins: Oliver Goldsmith: Edited by Roger Lonsdale]  ●  1746

Baillie, John, fl. 1796  ●  An Essay On the Sublime. By the late Dr. Baillie  ●  1747

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Preface: Written by a Friend of the Author [in, Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple]  ●  1747

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Chapter 1 [in, Tom Jones, Book 5]  ●  1749

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Chapter 1 [in, Tom Jones, Book 8]  ●  1749

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Chapter 1 [in, Tom Jones, Book 9]  ●  1749

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Chapter 1 [in, Tom Jones, Book 10]  ●  1749

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Chapter 1 [in, Tom Jones, Book 11]  ●  1749

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Chapter 1 [in, Tom Jones, Book 14]  ●  1749

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Chapter 1 [in, Tom Jones, Book I]  ●  1749

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  A Criticism on Milton's Versification [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  A critical examination of Samson Agonistes [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  An Allegory on Criticism [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  An Inquiry how far Milton has Accommodated the Sound to the Sense [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  Criticism on Epistolary Writings [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  Directions to Authors Attacked by Critics [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  Poetry Debased by Mean Expressions [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  Rules of writing drawn from examples [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Accommodation of Sound to Sense often Chimerical [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Criticism Continued [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Danger of Succeeding a Great Author [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Dangers of Imitation [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Laws of Writing Not Always Indisputable [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Pauses in English Poetry Adjusted [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Prejudices and Caprices of Criticism [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Reasons Why Pastorals Delight [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The True Principles of Pastoral Poetry [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Vanity of an Author's Expectations [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The difficulty of defining comedy [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The dignity and usefulness of biography [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The modern form of romances [in, The Rambler]  ●  1750

Francklin, Thomas, 1721 -- 1784  ●  Translation; A Poem. By Thomas Francklin ... The Second Edition  ●  1753

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  An Apology for Apparent Plagiarism [in, The British Essayists]  ●  1753

Lowth, Robert, 1710 -- 1787  ●  Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews  ●  1753

Fielding, Henry, 1707 -- 1754  ●  Preface [in, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon]  ●  1755

Johnson, Samuel, 1709 -- 1784  ●  The Preface [in, A Dictionary of the English Language]  ●  1755

Burke, Edmund, 1729 -- 1797  ●  A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful  ●  1757

Gray, Thomas, 1716 -- 1771  ●  The Progress of Poesy [in, The poems of Thomas Gray: William Collins: Oliver Goldsmith: Edited by Roger Lonsdale]  ●  1757