William Congreve: The Critical Heritage (The Collected Critical Heritage : the Restoration and the Augustans)

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 PREFACE......Page 14 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 15 INTRODUCTION......Page 16 WILLIAM CONGREVE, Preface to Incognita, 1691......Page 71 JOHN DRYDEN on The Old Batchelour, 1692......Page 73 Prefatory poems to The Old Batchelour, 1693......Page 74 PETER MOTTEUX in The Gentleman's Journal, 1693......Page 78 HENRY HIGDEN in the Preface to The Wary Widdow, 1693......Page 79 JOHN DRYDEN in the dedication to Examen Poeticum, 1693......Page 81 THOMAS YALDEN, 'To Mr. Congreve. An Epistolary Ode Occasion'd by his late Play', 1693......Page 82 JONATHAN SWIFT, 'To Mr. Congreve', 1693......Page 85 WILLIAM CONGREVE, Epistle Dedicatory to The Double-Dealer, 1693......Page 92 JOHN DRYDEN on The Double-Dealer, 1693......Page 97 WILLIAM DOVE, 'To Mr. Congreve', 1693......Page 99 JOSEPH ADDISON in 'An Account of the Greatest English Poets', 1694......Page 100 CHARLES HOPKINS in 'To Walter Moyle, Esq.', 1694......Page 101 ANON. in The Mourning Poets, 1695......Page 102 EDWARD HOWARD in the Proem to An Essay upon Pastoral, 1695......Page 103 WILLIAM CONGREVE, 'Concerning Humour in Comedy', 1695......Page 105 WILLIAM PITTIS in An Epistolary Poem to N.Tate, Esquire, 1696......Page 113 CATHARINE TROTTER, 'To Mr. Congreve, on his Tragedy, the Mourning Bride', 1697......Page 116 SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE in the Preface to King Arthur, 1697......Page 117 CHARLES HOPKINS, dedication of Boadicea, Queen of Britain, 1697......Page 119 ANON. in The Justice of Peace, 1697......Page 121 JEREMY COLLIER in A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage, 1698......Page 123 ELKANAH SETTLE in A Defence of Dramatick Poetry, 1698......Page 130 WILLIAM CONGREVE in Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations, 1698......Page 131 ANON. in A Letter to Mr. Congreve, 1698......Page 148 ANON. in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, 1698......Page 153 JEREMY COLLIER in A Defence of the Short View, 1698......Page 154 ANON. in Some Remarks upon Mr. Collier's Defence, 1698......Page 175 CHARLES GILDON in A Letter to Mr. Congreve, Occasion'd by the Death of the Countess Dowager of Manchester, 1698......Page 178 ANON. in 'A Session of the Poets', 1698......Page 179 JOHN OLDMIXON in Reflections on the Stage, 1699......Page 180 JAMES DRAKE in The Ancient and Modern Stages Survey'd, 1699......Page 182 CHARLES HOPKINS in 'An Epistle from Mr. Charles Hopkins to Mr. Yalden in Oxon.', 1699......Page 184 CHARLES GILDON in Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, 1699?......Page 185 SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE in A Satyr against Wit, 1699......Page 190 WILLIAM CONGREVE, dedication of The Way of the World, 1700......Page 191 SAMUEL WESLEY in An Epistle to a Friend concerning Poetry, 1700......Page 194 SAMUEL COBB in Poetae Britannici, 1700......Page 195 DANIEL KENRICK in A New Session of the Poets, Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Dryden, 1700......Page 196 ANON. in An Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, 1700......Page 197 RICHARD STEELE, 'Epistle to Mr. Congreve, occasion'd by his Comedy call'd The Way of the World', 1701......Page 199 ANON. in A Comparison between the Two Stages, 1702......Page 201 ANON. in The Tryal of Skill, 1704......Page 203 RICHARD STEELE on The Old Batchelour and 'Doris', 1709 13......Page 205 JOHN DENNIS in Remarks upon Mr. Pope's Translation of Homer, 1717......Page 208 RICHARDSON PACK in 'Of STUDY', 1719......Page 210 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, 'To the Memory of Mr. Congreve', 1729......Page 213 JONATHAN SWIFT in a letter to Viscount Bolingbroke and Alexander Pope, 1729......Page 214 DAVID MALLET, 'A Poem to the Memory of Mr. Congreve', 1729......Page 215 ANON. in An Epistle to Lord Viscount Cobham, 1730......Page 220 ALEXANDER POPE, miscellaneous comments......Page 226 FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE in Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1733......Page 227 WILLIAM POPPLE in The Prompter, 1735......Page 228 ANON. in The Daily Gazetteer, 1737......Page 231 HENRY FIELDING in The Champion, 1739......Page 232 SAMUEL FOOTE in The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd and Compar'd, 1747......Page 233 EDMUND BURKE in The Reformer, 1748......Page 234 WILLIAM MELMOTH on Congreve's translations of Homer, 1750......Page 235 JOHN CAMPBELL and ANDREW KIPPIS in Biographia Britannica, 1750 and 1789......Page 239 JOSEPH WARTON in The Adventurer, 1754......Page 244 ARTHUR MURPHY in The Gray's Inn Journal, 1754......Page 245 ARTHUR MURPHY (?), three reviews in The London Chronicle, 1757 8......Page 246 CHARLES CHURCHILL in The Rosciad, 1761......Page 251 ARTHUR MURPHY in 'An Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, Esq;', 1762......Page 252 HENRY HOME, Lord Kames in Elements of Criticism, 1762 3......Page 254 SAMUEL JOHNSON in The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., by James Boswell, 1769......Page 260 FRANCIS GENTLEMAN in The Dramatic Censor, 1770......Page 261 ANON., review of The Way of the World in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 1775......Page 265 WILLIAM MASON in 'Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Gray', 1775......Page 267 HORACE WALPOLE in 'Thoughts on Comedy', 1775 6......Page 268 ANON., review of The Way of the World in The Morning Chronicle, 1776......Page 270 FANNY BURNEY in Evelina, 1778......Page 271 SAMUEL JOHNSON, 'Congreve', 1781......Page 275 HUGH BLAIR in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1783......Page 286 THOMAS DAVIES in Dramatic Miscellanies, 1784......Page 288 ANON., review of The Way of the World in The Public Advertiser, 1784......Page 307 CHARLES ESTE (?), reviews of Love for Love and The Mourning Bride in The World, 1787......Page 308 'Censor Dramaticus' in The Thespian Magazine, 1792......Page 311 ANON., reviews of The Double-Dealer and The Mourning Bride in The Monthly Mirror, 1802 7......Page 315 ANON., 'On the Character of Congreve as a Writer of Comedy', 1804......Page 317 ELIZABETH INCHBALD on Love for Love, 1808......Page 325 WILLIAM HAZLITT on Congreve, 1816 19......Page 326 RICHARD CUMBERLAND in The British Drama, 1817......Page 334 GEORGE GORDON, Lord Byron in his letters to John Murray, 1820 1......Page 343 CHARLES LAMB in The London Magazine, 1822......Page 344 JAMES BOADEN on Congreve, 1827 31......Page 348 HARTLEY COLERIDGE in Biographia Borealis, with the annotations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833......Page 357 LEIGH HUNT in the Introduction to The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, 1840......Page 366 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY in 'Comic Dramatists of the Restoration', 1841......Page 379 Reviews of Love for Love and The Way of the World in The Times, 1842......Page 392 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY in The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, 1851......Page 402 CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE in 'Congreve and Wycherley', 1871......Page 408 GEORGE MEREDITH in 'On the Idea of Comedy, and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit', 1877......Page 417 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, 'Congreve', 1877......Page 420 OSWALD CRAWFURD in English Comic Dramatists, 1883......Page 424 EDMUND GOSSE, in The Life of William Congreve, 1888......Page 426 W.E.HENLEY reviews Edmund Gosse's William Congreve, 1888......Page 435 WALTER RALEIGH in The English Novel, 1894......Page 440 G.S.STREET in the Introduction to The Comedies of William Congreve, 1895......Page 442 SIR LESLIE STEPHEN in English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century, 1904......Page 453 A.B.WALKLEY, review of The Way of the World in the Times Literary Supplement, 1904......Page 458 WILLIAM ARCHER in the Introduction to William Congreve, 1912......Page 462 CHARLES WHIBLEY in The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1912......Page 478 JOHN PALMER in The Comedy of Manners, 1913......Page 490 Arts, Language and Literature Book Cover 1 Title 4 Contents 5 PREFACE 14 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 15 INTRODUCTION 16 WILLIAM CONGREVE, Preface to Incognita, 1691 71 JOHN DRYDEN on The Old Batchelour, 1692 73 Prefatory poems to The Old Batchelour, 1693 74 PETER MOTTEUX in The Gentleman's Journal, 1693 78 HENRY HIGDEN in the Preface to The Wary Widdow, 1693 79 JOHN DRYDEN in the dedication to Examen Poeticum, 1693 81 THOMAS YALDEN, 'To Mr. Congreve. An Epistolary Ode Occasion'd by his late Play', 1693 82 JONATHAN SWIFT, 'To Mr. Congreve', 1693 85 WILLIAM CONGREVE, Epistle Dedicatory to The Double-Dealer, 1693 92 JOHN DRYDEN on The Double-Dealer, 1693 97 WILLIAM DOVE, 'To Mr. Congreve', 1693 99 JOSEPH ADDISON in 'An Account of the Greatest English Poets', 1694 100 CHARLES HOPKINS in 'To Walter Moyle, Esq.', 1694 101 ANON. in The Mourning Poets, 1695 102 EDWARD HOWARD in the Proem to An Essay upon Pastoral, 1695 103 WILLIAM CONGREVE, 'Concerning Humour in Comedy', 1695 105 WILLIAM PITTIS in An Epistolary Poem to N.Tate, Esquire, 1696 113 CATHARINE TROTTER, 'To Mr. Congreve, on his Tragedy, the Mourning Bride', 1697 116 SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE in the Preface to King Arthur, 1697 117 CHARLES HOPKINS, dedication of Boadicea, Queen of Britain, 1697 119 ANON. in The Justice of Peace, 1697 121 JEREMY COLLIER in A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage, 1698 123 ELKANAH SETTLE in A Defence of Dramatick Poetry, 1698 130 WILLIAM CONGREVE in Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations, 1698 131 ANON. in A Letter to Mr. Congreve, 1698 148 ANON. in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, 1698 153 JEREMY COLLIER in A Defence of the Short View, 1698 154 ANON. in Some Remarks upon Mr. Collier's Defence, 1698 175 CHARLES GILDON in A Letter to Mr. Congreve, Occasion'd by the Death of the Countess Dowager of Manchester, 1698 178 ANON. in 'A Session of the Poets', 1698 179 JOHN OLDMIXON in Reflections on the Stage, 1699 180 JAMES DRAKE in The Ancient and Modern Stages Survey'd, 1699 182 CHARLES HOPKINS in 'An Epistle from Mr. Charles Hopkins to Mr. Yalden in Oxon.', 1699 184 CHARLES GILDON in Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, 1699? 185 SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE in A Satyr against Wit, 1699 190 WILLIAM CONGREVE, dedication of The Way of the World, 1700 191 SAMUEL WESLEY in An Epistle to a Friend concerning Poetry, 1700 194 SAMUEL COBB in Poetae Britannici, 1700 195 DANIEL KENRICK in A New Session of the Poets, Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Dryden, 1700 196 ANON. in An Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, 1700 197 RICHARD STEELE, 'Epistle to Mr. Congreve, occasion'd by his Comedy call'd The Way of the World', 1701 199 ANON. in A Comparison between the Two Stages, 1702 201 ANON. in The Tryal of Skill, 1704 203 RICHARD STEELE on The Old Batchelour and 'Doris', 1709 13 205 JOHN DENNIS in Remarks upon Mr. Pope's Translation of Homer, 1717 208 RICHARDSON PACK in 'Of STUDY', 1719 210 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, 'To the Memory of Mr. Congreve', 1729 213 JONATHAN SWIFT in a letter to Viscount Bolingbroke and Alexander Pope, 1729 214 DAVID MALLET, 'A Poem to the Memory of Mr. Congreve', 1729 215 ANON. in An Epistle to Lord Viscount Cobham, 1730 220 ALEXANDER POPE, miscellaneous comments 226 FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE in Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1733 227 WILLIAM POPPLE in The Prompter, 1735 228 ANON. in The Daily Gazetteer, 1737 231 HENRY FIELDING in The Champion, 1739 232 SAMUEL FOOTE in The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd and Compar'd, 1747 233 EDMUND BURKE in The Reformer, 1748 234 WILLIAM MELMOTH on Congreve's translations of Homer, 1750 235 JOHN CAMPBELL and ANDREW KIPPIS in Biographia Britannica, 1750 and 1789 239 JOSEPH WARTON in The Adventurer, 1754 244 ARTHUR MURPHY in The Gray's Inn Journal, 1754 245 ARTHUR MURPHY (?), three reviews in The London Chronicle, 1757 8 246 CHARLES CHURCHILL in The Rosciad, 1761 251 ARTHUR MURPHY in 'An Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, Esq;', 1762 252 HENRY HOME, Lord Kames in Elements of Criticism, 1762 3 254 SAMUEL JOHNSON in The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., by James Boswell, 1769 260 FRANCIS GENTLEMAN in The Dramatic Censor, 1770 261 ANON., review of The Way of the World in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 1775 265 WILLIAM MASON in 'Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Gray', 1775 267 HORACE WALPOLE in 'Thoughts on Comedy', 1775 6 268 ANON., review of The Way of the World in The Morning Chronicle, 1776 270 FANNY BURNEY in Evelina, 1778 271 SAMUEL JOHNSON, 'Congreve', 1781 275 HUGH BLAIR in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1783 286 THOMAS DAVIES in Dramatic Miscellanies, 1784 288 ANON., review of The Way of the World in The Public Advertiser, 1784 307 CHARLES ESTE (?), reviews of Love for Love and The Mourning Bride in The World, 1787 308 'Censor Dramaticus' in The Thespian Magazine, 1792 311 ANON., reviews of The Double-Dealer and The Mourning Bride in The Monthly Mirror, 1802 7 315 ANON., 'On the Character of Congreve as a Writer of Comedy', 1804 317 ELIZABETH INCHBALD on Love for Love, 1808 325 WILLIAM HAZLITT on Congreve, 1816 19 326 RICHARD CUMBERLAND in The British Drama, 1817 334 GEORGE GORDON, Lord Byron in his letters to John Murray, 1820 1 343 CHARLES LAMB in The London Magazine, 1822 344 JAMES BOADEN on Congreve, 1827 31 348 HARTLEY COLERIDGE in Biographia Borealis, with the annotations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833 357 LEIGH HUNT in the Introduction to The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, 1840 366 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY in 'Comic Dramatists of the Restoration', 1841 379 Reviews of Love for Love and The Way of the World in The Times, 1842 392 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY in The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, 1851 402 CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE in 'Congreve and Wycherley', 1871 408 GEORGE MEREDITH in 'On the Idea of Comedy, and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit', 1877 417 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, 'Congreve', 1877 420 OSWALD CRAWFURD in English Comic Dramatists, 1883 424 EDMUND GOSSE, in The Life of William Congreve, 1888 426 W.E.HENLEY reviews Edmund Gosse's William Congreve, 1888 435 WALTER RALEIGH in The English Novel, 1894 440 G.S.STREET in the Introduction to The Comedies of William Congreve, 1895 442 SIR LESLIE STEPHEN in English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century, 1904 453 A.B.WALKLEY, review of The Way of the World in the Times Literary Supplement, 1904 458 WILLIAM ARCHER in the Introduction to William Congreve, 1912 462 CHARLES WHIBLEY in The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1912 478 JOHN PALMER in The Comedy of Manners, 1913 490