English Critical Essays : Nineteenth Century - Jones, Edmund D. (Edmund David), 1869-1941 (Project Gutenberg, 2010)
Poetry and poetic diction, by W. Wordsworth -- Wordsworth's theory of diction, by S. T. Coleridge -- Metrical composition, by S. T. Coleridge -- The Canterbury pilgrims, by W. Blake -- On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation, by C. Lamb -- A defence of poetry, by P. B. Shelley -- My first acquaintance with poets, by W. Hazlitt -- Sacred poetry, by J. Keble -- Poetry with reference to Aristotle's Poetics, by J. H. Newman -- The hero as poet. Dante; Shakespeare, by T. Carlyle -- An answer to the question, what is poetry? By J. H. L. Hunt -- The choice of subjects in poetry, by M. Arnold -- Of the pathetic fallacy, by J. Ruskin -- Thoughts on poetry and its varieties, by J. S. Mill -- Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry, by W. Bagehot -- Coleridge's writings, by W. H. Pater -- Shakespeare; or, The poet, by R. W. Emerson -- Wordsworth, by J. R. Lowell.
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Keywords: Criticism; English essays; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Poetry