First Year (1946–47)Numbers 1-6 out of print.Titles:1.Richard Blackmore’sEssay upon Wit(1716), and Addison’sFreeholderNo. 45 (1716).2.Anon.,Essay on Wit(1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton’sAdventurerNos. 127 and 133.3.Anon.,Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage(1698), and Richard Willis’Occasional PaperNo. IX (1698).4.Samuel Cobb’sOf PoetryandDiscourse on Criticism(1707).5.Samuel Wesley’sEpistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry(1700) andEssay on Heroic Poetry(1693).6.Anon.,Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage(1704) and anon.,Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage(1704).Second Year (1947-1948)7.John Gay’sThe Present State of Wit(1711); and a section on Wit fromThe English Theophrastus(1702).8.Rapin’sDe Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).9.T. Hanmer’s (?)Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet(1736).10.Corbyn Morris’Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc.(1744).11.Thomas Purney’sDiscourse on the Pastoral(1717).12.Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.Third Year (1948-1949)13.Sir John Falstaff (pseud.),The Theatre(1720).14.Edward Moore’sThe Gamester(1753).15.John Oldmixon’sReflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’sThe British Academy(1712).16.Nevil Payne’sFatal Jealousy(1673).17.Nicholas Rowe’sSome Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare(1709).18.“Of Genius,” inThe Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill’s Preface toThe Creation(1720).Fourth Year (1949-1950)19.Susanna Centlivre’sThe Busie Body(1709).20.Lewis Theobold’sPreface to The Works of Shakespeare(1734).21.Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela(1754).22.Samuel Johnson’sThe Vanity of Human Wishes(1749) and TwoRamblerpapers (1750).23.John Dryden’sHis Majesties Declaration Defended(1681).24.Pierre Nicole’sAn Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams, translated by J. V. Cunningham.Fifth Year (1950-1951)25.Thomas Baker’sThe Fine Lady’s Airs(1709).26.Charles Macklin’sThe Man of the World(1792).27.Frances Reynolds’An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc.(1785).28.John Evelyn’sAn Apologie for the Royal Party(1659); andA Panegyric to Charles the Second(1661).29.Daniel Defoe’sA Vindication of the Press(1718).30.Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper’sLetters Concerning Taste, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong’sMiscellanies(1770).Sixth Year (1951-1952)31.Thomas Gray’sAn Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard(1751); andThe Eton College Manuscript.32.Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry’s Preface toIbrahim(1674), etc.33.Henry Gally’sA Critical Essayon Characteristic-Writings (1725).34. Thomas Tyers’ A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).35.James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster.Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch(1763).36.Joseph Harris’sThe City Bride(1696).
Numbers 1-6 out of print.
Titles:1.Richard Blackmore’sEssay upon Wit(1716), and Addison’sFreeholderNo. 45 (1716).2.Anon.,Essay on Wit(1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton’sAdventurerNos. 127 and 133.3.Anon.,Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage(1698), and Richard Willis’Occasional PaperNo. IX (1698).4.Samuel Cobb’sOf PoetryandDiscourse on Criticism(1707).
Titles:
1.Richard Blackmore’sEssay upon Wit(1716), and Addison’sFreeholderNo. 45 (1716).
2.Anon.,Essay on Wit(1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton’sAdventurerNos. 127 and 133.
3.Anon.,Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage(1698), and Richard Willis’Occasional PaperNo. IX (1698).
4.Samuel Cobb’sOf PoetryandDiscourse on Criticism(1707).
5.Samuel Wesley’sEpistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry(1700) andEssay on Heroic Poetry(1693).
6.Anon.,Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage(1704) and anon.,Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage(1704).
7.John Gay’sThe Present State of Wit(1711); and a section on Wit fromThe English Theophrastus(1702).
8.Rapin’sDe Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).
9.T. Hanmer’s (?)Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet(1736).
10.Corbyn Morris’Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc.(1744).
11.Thomas Purney’sDiscourse on the Pastoral(1717).
12.Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.
13.Sir John Falstaff (pseud.),The Theatre(1720).
14.Edward Moore’sThe Gamester(1753).
15.John Oldmixon’sReflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’sThe British Academy(1712).
16.Nevil Payne’sFatal Jealousy(1673).
17.Nicholas Rowe’sSome Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare(1709).
18.“Of Genius,” inThe Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill’s Preface toThe Creation(1720).
19.Susanna Centlivre’sThe Busie Body(1709).
20.Lewis Theobold’sPreface to The Works of Shakespeare(1734).
21.Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela(1754).
22.Samuel Johnson’sThe Vanity of Human Wishes(1749) and TwoRamblerpapers (1750).
23.John Dryden’sHis Majesties Declaration Defended(1681).
24.Pierre Nicole’sAn Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams, translated by J. V. Cunningham.
25.Thomas Baker’sThe Fine Lady’s Airs(1709).
26.Charles Macklin’sThe Man of the World(1792).
27.Frances Reynolds’An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc.(1785).
28.John Evelyn’sAn Apologie for the Royal Party(1659); andA Panegyric to Charles the Second(1661).
29.Daniel Defoe’sA Vindication of the Press(1718).
30.Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper’sLetters Concerning Taste, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong’sMiscellanies(1770).
31.Thomas Gray’sAn Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard(1751); andThe Eton College Manuscript.
32.Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry’s Preface toIbrahim(1674), etc.
33.Henry Gally’sA Critical Essayon Characteristic-Writings (1725).
34. Thomas Tyers’ A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).
35.James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster.Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch(1763).
36.Joseph Harris’sThe City Bride(1696).
General Editors
H. Richard ArcherWilliam Andrews Clark Memorial Library
E. N. HookerUniversity of California, Los Angeles
R. C. BoysUniversity of Michigan
John LoftisUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Publications for the sixth year [1951–1952]
(At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be reprinted.)
Thomas Gray:An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard(1751). Introduction by George Sherburn.James Boswell,Andrew Erskine, andGeorge Dempster:Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira(1763). Introduction by Frederick A. Pottle.An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding(1751). Introduction by James A. Work.Henry Gally:A Critical Essay on Characteristic Writing(1725). Introduction by Alexander Chorney.[John Phillips]:Satyr Against Hypocrits(1655). Introduction by Leon Howard.Prefaces to Fiction.Selected and with an Introduction by Benjamin Boyce.Thomas Tyers:A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson([1785]). Introduction by Gerald Dennis Meyer.
Thomas Gray:An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard(1751). Introduction by George Sherburn.
James Boswell,Andrew Erskine, andGeorge Dempster:Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira(1763). Introduction by Frederick A. Pottle.
An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding(1751). Introduction by James A. Work.
Henry Gally:A Critical Essay on Characteristic Writing(1725). Introduction by Alexander Chorney.
[John Phillips]:Satyr Against Hypocrits(1655). Introduction by Leon Howard.
Prefaces to Fiction.Selected and with an Introduction by Benjamin Boyce.
Thomas Tyers:A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson([1785]). Introduction by Gerald Dennis Meyer.
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