Critical essays of the eighteenth century, 1700-1725

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Charles Gildon: An essay at a vindication of the love-verses of Cowley and Waller (1694); Modern poets against the ancients (1694); Complete art of poetry. Part II. (1718)

John Hughes: Of style (1698); On allegorical poetry (1715): Remarks on the Fairy queen <in part> (1715)

John Dennis: Large account of the taste in poetry (1702); The ground of criticism in poetry (1704); Reflections upon a late rhapsody called an Essay upon criticism (1711)

George Farquhar: Discourse upon comedy (1702)

Richard Steele: Tatler LXVIII: Shakespeare (1709); Guardian XII: On critics (1713)

Joseph Addison: Tatler CLXV: On critics (1710); Spectator XL: Poetic justice (1711); Spectator CLX: The nature of genius (1711); Spectator DXCII: The critics and the rules (1714)

Alexander Pope: Preface to the translation of the Iliad (1715)

Leonard Welsted: Dissertation concerning the state of poetry (1724)

Allan Ramsay: Preface to The ever green (1724)