1971 Elizabethan Critical Essays

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The complete two volume set of Scottish scholar G. Gregory Smith's Elizabethan Critical Essays, a collection of contemporary criticisms of popular literature in the Elizabethan era. Published by Oxford University Press in 1971. A new reprint of the first edition, published in 1904.

In the publisher's original blue cloth, in the original unclipped yellow dust wrappers.

Smith's collection recovers what passed as criticism among Elizabethan literary circles to gain a vivid insight into contemporary beliefs and opinions. The reader gauges contemporary views on Puritanism, the purpose of poetry and the prevailing importance of Graeco-Roman philosophy. Critics include Shakespeare's relative Thomas Nash, and King James VI of Scotland.