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AN ENGLISH GARNER
CRITICAL ESSAYS AND LITERARY FRAGMENTS
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J. CHURTON COLLINS
1903
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
The texts contained in the present volume are reprinted with very slight alterations from the English Garner issued in eight volumes (1877-1890, London, 8vo.) by Professor Arber, whose name is sufficient guarantee for the accurate collation of the texts with the rare originals, the old spelling being in most cases carefully modernised. The contents of the original Garner have been rearranged and now for the first time classified, under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe. Certain lacunae have been filled by the interpolation of fresh matter. The Introductions are wholly new and have been written specially for this issue. The references to volumes of the Garner (other than the present volume) are for the most part to the editio princeps, 8 vols. 1877-90.
CONTENTS
I. Extract from Thomas Wilson's Art of Rhetoric, 1554
II. Sir Philip Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert, 1580
III. Extract from Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia, 1598
IV. Dryden's Dedicatory Epistle to the Rival Ladies, 1664
V. Sir Robert Howard's Preface to four new Plays, 1665
VI. Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 1668
VII. Extract from Thomas Ellwood's History of Himself, describing
his relations with Milton, 1713
VIII. Bishop Copleston's Advice to a Young Reviewer, 1807
IX. The Bickerstaff and Partridge Tracts, 1708
X. Gay's Present State of Wit, 1711
XI. Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721
XII. Steele's Dedicatory Epistle to Congreve, 1722
XIII. Extract from Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia, 1669
XIV. Eachard's Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy
and of Religion, 1670
XV. Bickerstaff's Miseries of the Domestic Chaplain, 1710
XVI. Franklin's Poor Richard Improved, 1757