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On Poetry in General
CHARLES LAMB--
VI. On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century VII. On Webster's
_Duchess of Malfi_ VIII. On Ford's _Broken Heart_
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY--
IX. A Defence of Poetry
THOMAS CARLYLE--
X. Goethe
WALTER PATER--
XI. Sandro Botticelli


INTRODUCTION.

In England, as elsewhere, criticism was a late birth of the literary
spirit. English poets had sung and literary prose been written for
centuries before it struck men to ask themselves, What is the secret
of the power that these things have on our mind, and by what principles
are they to be judged? And it could hardly have been otherwise.
Criticism is a self-conscious art, and could not have arisen in an age
of intellectual childhood. It is a derivative art, and could scarcely
have come into being without a large body of literature to suggest
canons of judgment, and to furnish instances of their application.
The age of Chaucer might have been expected to bring with it a new
departure. It was an age of self-scrutiny and of bold experiment.


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