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John Skelton : the critical heritage /

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 student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Edwards, A. S. G. (Anthony Stockwell Garfield), 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Colección:Critical heritage series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Note on the text
  • William Caxton on Skelton, c. 1490
  • Erasmus on Skelton, 'that incomparable light and ornament of British letters', c. 1499
  • Alexander Barclay on 'Philip Sparrow', 1509
  • 'The great chronicle of London' on Skelton and his contemporaries, c. 1510
  • Henry Bradshaw on Skelton and other superior poets, c. 1513
  • William Lily on Skelton : 'neither learned, nor a poet', c. 1519
  • Robert Whittinton in praise of Skelton, the 'learned poet', 1519
  • John Bale on the life of Skelton, 1557
  • William Bullein on Skelton's satires on Wolsey, 1564
  • Thomas Churchyard in praise of Skelton, 1568
  • John Grange on Skelton's 'ragged ryme', 1577
  • William Webbe on Skelton : 'a pleasant conceyted fellowe', 1586
  • George Puttenham on Skelton's metre, 1589
  • Gabriel Harvey on Skelton, the 'madbrayned knave', c. 1573-80, 1592
  • Arthur Dent on Skelton's immoral works, c. 1590
  • Michael Drayton in praise of Skelton, c. 1600, 1606, 1619
  • 'Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cappe' in praise of 'Elynor Rumming', 1609
  • Nicholas Breton on Skelton's 'ruffling rimes', 1612
  • Humphrey King on Skelton and other 'merry men', 1613
  • William Browne on Skelton, 1614
  • Henry Peacham on Skelton's unmerited reputation, 1622
  • 'A banquet of jests' on the neglect of Skelton, 1639
  • James Howell on the neglect of Skelton, 1655
  • Thomas Fuller's biography of Skelton, 1662
  • Edward Phillips on Skelton's current obscurity, 1675
  • An eighteenth-century critic in praise of 'Elynor Rummyng', 1718
  • Alexander Pope on 'beastly Skelton', 1737
  • Elizabeth Cooper in praise of Skelton, 1737
  • Samuel Johnson on Skelton, 1755
  • Thomas Wharton on Skelton, 1778
  • Philip Neve on Skelton : 'a rude and scurrilous rhymer', 1789
  • Robert Southey on Skelton's genius, 1814
  • William Gifford in praise of Skelton, 1816
  • Ezekiel Sanford on Skelton's life and works, 1819
  • The 'Retrospective review' in praise of Skelton, 1822
  • William Wordsworth on Skelton : 'a demon in point of genius', 1823, 1833
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 'Philip Sparrow', 1827, 1836
  • Henry Hallam on Skelton : 'certainly not a poet', 1837
  • Isaac D'Isreali on Skelton's genius, 1840
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning in praise of Skelton, 1842
  • Agnes Strickland on Skelton : 'this ribald and ill-living wretch', 1842
  • The 'Quarterly review' on Dyce's edition of Skelton, 1844
  • Hippolyte Taine on Skelton the 'clown', 1863
  • 'Dublin University magazine' on Skelton, 1866
  • James Russell Lowell on Skelton and 'Philip Sparrow', 1875, 1889
  • John Churton Collins on Skelton, 1880
  • Richard Hughes on Skelton, 1924
  • Edmund Blunden on Skelton's 400th anniversary, 1929
  • Humbert Wolfe on Skelton's innovation, 1929
  • Robert Graves on Henderson's edition of Skelton, 1931
  • W.H. Auden on Skelton 'the entertainer', 1935
  • G.S. Fraser on Skelton, 1936
  • E.M. Forster on Skelton, 1950
  • C.S. Lewis on Skelton, 'the really gifted amateur', 1954.