1967 2 Vols The Critical Works of John Dennis

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original cloth bindings. 

Complete in two volumes. 

First published in 1939, these copies are the third printing of this work. 

This scholarly two-volume set collects the major critical writings of John Dennis (1657–1734), the influential, and often contentious, English critic associated with early modern aesthetic theory.

These volumes cover his essays on poetry, drama, taste, the sublime, and the role of criticism, the edition offers insight into Dennis’s quarrelsome exchanges with contemporaries, including Pope, and his formative contributions to neoclassical literary thought.