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University of Allahabad Studies English Section Critical Reviews and Essays 1820—50

1938

They met stealthily at a hack-room of the press in the night to correct the proof-sheets or to discuss the policy of the paper and never talked of these in public or in the day. [...]. The art of the dramatist is to unite the acting qualities of the play to the more refined and enduring qualities of the poem. But if they fancy that the theatrical effect is easily attained they are mistaken."CRITICAL REVIEWS AND ESSAYS 1820-50 29 But unless the highest dramatic effects can be supposed to be the result of mere chance they must have been the result of art. [...] He has sung the paean of victory over the foes of Heaven but he has not dwarfed the contest of angels by striking prone their enemies and arming with stings and reptile tails the legions who scared the Chaos and the Deep and waged even dubious battle with the Creator and his myriads in arms. The Satan of Milton is the most magnificent cretion in poetry. He stands before us with the [...] A fourth brings us the splendid phantoms of chivalrous romance the trophied lists the embroidered housings the quaint devices the haunted forests the enchanted gardens the achievements of enamoured knights and smiles of rescued princesses. Macaulay was one of the earliest critics to find the importance of music in Milton's poetry and the contribtion of proper names to its creation. [...] It is incontestably inferior to the beautiful particularity blended with the delicate sentment and feelings of Cowper or the splendid diffusions of Thomson in his Seasons " and still more to the richness of conception and luxuriance of the language in the first canto of " The Castle of Indolence." Had the " Temple of Fame " been an entirely original composition it would have approached near th
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Frontmatter
1-4 Ashutosh Banerji view
Introduction
5-6 Ashutosh Banerji view
The Rise and Growth of Critical Journalism
7-12 Ashutosh Banerji view
The Policy and Work of these Periodicals upto 1820
12-22 Ashutosh Banerji view
The Revival of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
22-30 Ashutosh Banerji view
The Attitude Towards Elder Poets: Chaucer Spenser and Milton
30-36 Ashutosh Banerji view
The Attitude Towards the Eighteenth Century Poets
36-40 Ashutosh Banerji view
On the Contemporary Poets of the Romantic Revival
40-53 Ashutosh Banerji view
Principles of their Literary Criticism
53-57 Ashutosh Banerji view
The Eccentric Criticism
58-61 Ashutosh Banerji view
The Achievement of these Reviews 1820—50
61-63 Ashutosh Banerji view
Bibliography
64-64 Ashutosh Banerji view
Appendices
65-67 Ashutosh Banerji view

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