Addison, Steele, Swift, Defoe, Johnson and Others: English Essays (The Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition)

Eliot, Charles W. (editor)

ISBN 10: 1135762821 / ISBN 13: 9781135762827

Published by P. F. Collier & Son, 1969

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Addison, Steele, Swift, Defoe, Johnson and Others: English Essays (The Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition)
• Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1135762821
• ISBN 13: 9781135762827
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Essays include: The Defense of Poesy by Sidney; On Shakespear by Jonson; On Bacon by Jonson; Of Agriculture by Cowley; The Vision of Mirza by Addison; Westminster Abbey by Addison; The Spectator Club by Steele; Hints towards an Essay on Conversation by Swift; A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding by Swift; A Letter of Advise to a Yount Poet by Swift; On the Dearth of Esther Johnson (Stella) by Swift; The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters by Defoe; The Education of Women by Defoe; Life of Addison, 1672-1709 by Johnson; On the Standard of Taste by Hume; Fallacies of Anti-Reformers by Smith; On Poesy or Art by Coleridge; Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen by Hazlitt; Deaths of Little Children by Hunt; On the Realities of Imagination by Hunt; On the Tragedies of Shakspere by Lamb; Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow by de Quincey; A Defence of Poetry by Shelley; Machiavelli by Macaulay.