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Critical Essays 



Edited with Introductions and Notes by THOMAS H. 

 DICKINSON, Ph.D., and FREDERICK W. ROE, 

 A.M., Assistant Professors of English, University of Wis- 



consin. 



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THIS booii for college classes presents a series of ten 

 selected essays, which are intended to trace the develop- 

 ment of English criticism in the nineteenth century. 

 The choice of material has been influenced by something 

 more than mere style. An underlying coherence in content, 

 typical of the thought of the era in question, may be traced 

 throughout. With but few exceptions the selections are given 

 in their entirety. 



^ The essays cover a definite period, and exhibit the indi- 

 viduality of each author's method of criticism. In each case 

 they are those most typical of the author's critical principles, 

 and at the same time representative of the critical tendencies 

 of his age. The subject-matter provides interesting material 

 for intensive study and class room discussion, and each essay 

 is an example of excellent, though varying, style. 

 ^ They represent not only the authors who write, but the 

 authors who are treated. The essays provide the best things 

 that have been said by England's critics on Swift, on Scott, 

 on Macaulay, and on Emerson. 



^ The introductions and notes provide the necessary bio- 

 graphical matter, suggestive points for the use of the teacher 

 in stimulating discussion of the form or content of the essays, 

 and such aids as will eliminate those matters of detail that 

 might prove stumbling blocks to the student. Though the 

 essays are in chronological order, they may be treated at ran- 

 dom according to the purposes of the teacher. 



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