Harvard Classics

Prefaces and prologues to famous books

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor]; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 [Contributor]; Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 [Contributor]; Caxton, William, 1422?-1492? [Contributor]; Condell, Henry, -1627 [Contributor]; Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 [Contributor]; Dryden, John, 1631-1700 [Contributor]; Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 [Contributor]; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 [Contributor]; Heminge, John, 1556?-1630 [Contributor]; Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 [Contributor]; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 [Contributor]; Knox, John, 1514?-1572 [Contributor]; Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 [Contributor]; Raleigh, Walter, 1552?-1618 [Contributor]; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 [Contributor]; Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 [Contributor]; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 [Contributor]; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 [Contributor]· 2 chapters· 164,835 words

made according unto his own making. For I find many of the said books which writers have abridged it, and many things left out; and in some place have set certain verses that he never made ne set in his book; of which books so incorrect was one brought to me, 6 years past, whi...

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made according unto his own making. For I find many of the said books which writers have abridged it, and many things left out; and in some place have set certain verses that he...

2. Chapter 2

But one feels that this part of the art is still in its infancy. The epic, which at this period imposes its form on everything, the epic weighs heavily upon it and stifles it. T...