Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Prefaces to Fiction

Boyce, Benjamin, 1903-1997 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d', 1704-1771 [Contributor]; Derrick, Samuel, 1724-1769 [Contributor]; Manley, Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière), 1663-1724 [Contributor]; Scudéry, M. de (Georges), 1601-1667 [Contributor]; Warburton, William, 1698-1779 [Contributor]· 4 chapters· 13,488 words

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_ BENJAMIN BOYCE, _Duke University_ LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_ CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_ JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_ EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of...

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2. Chapter 2

Whereas we cannot be knowing but of that which others do teach us, and that it is for him that comes after, to follow them who precede him, I have believed, that for the laying...

3. Chapter 3

_One of the Things an Author ought first of all to take Care of, is to keep up to the Characters of the Persons he introduces. The Authors of_ Romances _give Extraordinary Virtu...

1. Chapter 1

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_ BENJAMIN BOYCE, _Duke University_ LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_ CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_ JAMES L. CLIFFORD,...

4. Chapter 4

If it may be thought reasonable to criticise the Public Taste, in what are generally supposed to be Works of mere Amusement; or modest to direct its Judgment, in what is offered...