Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660-1781This book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. |
Contents
The Morphology of a Concept II | 11 |
Making an English Canon | 35 |
Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame | 63 |
The Canon of PreChaucerian Poetry | 93 |
Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition | 142 |
Teaching English Literature | 169 |
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