Elizabethan critical essays / 
edited ; with an introduction, by G. Gregory Smith. 
 - [London :  Oxford University Press,  1967] 
<br/><br/> Reprint of the 1904 ed. 
<br/><br/>I. Introduction. Roger Ascham. "Of imitation" : The scholemaster (book II) 1570. Richard Willes. From Poematum liber. 1573. George Gascoigne. Certayne notes of instruction. 1575. George Whetstone. The Dedication to Promos and Cassandra. Thomas Lodge. A defence of poetry. 1579. Spenser-Harvey correspondence. 1579-80. "E.K." Epistle dedicatory to The Shepheards calendar. 1579. Richard Stanyhurst. From the Dedication and preface to the translation of the Aeneid. 1582. Sir Philip Sidney. An apologie for poetrie. c. 1583. King James VI. Ane schort treatise containing some relulis and cautelis to be obseruit and eschewit in Scottis poesie. 1584. William Webbe. A discourse of English poetrie. 1586. Abraham Fraunce. From the Arcadian rhetorike. 1588. Thomas Nash : I. Preface to Greene's Menaphon. 1589. II. From The anatomie of absurditie. 1589. Appendix. Notes. - II. Puttenham. The arte of English poesie. 1589. Sir John Harington. A preface or rather a briefe apologie of poetrie, prefixed to the translation of Orlando Furioso. 1591. Thomas Na31005sh. Preface of Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. 1591. Gabriel Harvey. From Foure letters. 1592. Thomas 1589. Sir John Harington. A preface or rather a briefe apologie of poetrie, prefixed to the translation of Orlando Furioso. 1591. Thomas Nash. Preface of Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. 1591. Gabriel Harvey. From Foure letters. 1592. Thomas Nash. From Strange newes ... 1592. Gabriel Harvey : I. From Pierce's Supererogation. 1593. II. From a new letter of notable contents. 1593. Richard Carew. The excellency of the English tongue. ?1595-6. George Chapman : I. Preface to Seaven bookes of the Iliades of Homere. 1598. II. Dedication, &c. of Achilles shield. 1598. Francis Meres. From Paladis Tamia. 1598. William Vaughan. From the golden grove. 1600. Thomas Campion. Observations in the art of English poesie. 1602. Samuel Daniel. A defence of ryme. ?1603. Appendix. N