Title Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781 / Richard Terry

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 354 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept -- 2. The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon -- 3. Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame -- 4. Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry -- 5. Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition -- 6. Teaching English Literature -- 7. Johnson's Lives of the Poets -- 8. Making the Female Canon -- 9. Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate Summary Exploring how the English literary past was made, this book charts how antiquarians have unearthed the raw materials of the British tradition and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-344) and index Notes Print version record Subject Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc British literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century English poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Literary historians -- Great Britain Canon (Literature) Canon (Literature) Criticism English literature -- Theory, etc. Literary historians Literature and history Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Oxford University Press ISBN 9780191718557 0191718556

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