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Best critical writing : selections from Oscar Wilde, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Edgar Allan Poe, and others /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grafton, John (Editor), Rawn, Nora (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [2019]
Series:Dover thrift editions.
Subjects:
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe
  • The critic as artist : with some remarks on the importance of doing nothing / Oscar Wilde
  • Fenimore Cooper's literary offences / Mark Twain
  • The study of poetry / Matthew Arnold
  • The plays of William Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson
  • Mr. Wordsworth / William Hazlitt
  • Style / Walter Pater
  • Preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman.