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Imagination and fancy

The outburst of literary theory in the 18th century was instrumental in establishing it in the 19th century as an area of intellectual activity. These reprinted texts represent the emergence of literary theory as a new branch of literature.
Print Book, English, 1995
Routledge/Thoemmes Press, London, 1995
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, xii, 345 pages ; 23 cm
9780415118750, 0415118751
33390056
Lectures on Poetry [1833] James Montgomery 404pp Treatises on Poetry, Modern Romance, and Rhetoric; being the Articles under those heads, Contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 7th Edition [1839] George Moir and William Spalding 383pp Imagination and Fancy [1844] Leigh Hunt 357pp Poetics: An Essay on Poetry [1852] Eneas Sweetland Dallas 302pp "The English Language" in the North British Review [1850] 25pp The Nature and Elements of Poetry [1893] E C Stedman 358pp "Sacred Poetry" in the Quarterly Review, xxxii, [1825] John Keble 21pp "On English Tragedy" in the Edinburgh Review [1828] 31pp "On English Poetry" in The Edinburgh Review [1825] 33pp "A Defence of Poetry" in The Edinburgh Review [1828] Brian Waller Proctor 20pp "Poetry, with Reference to Aristotle's Poetics" in The London Review [1829] John Henry Newman 18pp "What is Poetry?" 10pp "The Two Kinds of Poetry" 10pp in the Monthly Repository [1833] John Stuart Mill "Theories of Poetry and a New Poet" in the North British Reviews,[1853] David Masson 47pp
Originally published: London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1844