Essays on the eighteenth century : presented to David Nichol Smith in honour of his seventieth birthday.

Essays on the eighteenth century : presented to David Nichol Smith in honour of his seventieth birthday.

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1945.

vi p., 1 ℓ., 288 p. : front. (port.) ; 23 cm

Bibliographical foot-notes.

Addison, by C. S. Lewis
The conciseness of Swift, by Herbert Davis
Deane Swift, Hawkesworth, and The journal to Stella, by Harold Williams
Pope at work, by George Sherburn
The inspiration of Pope's poetry, by John Butt
'Where once stood their plain homely dwelling', by Collins Baker
Some aspects of eighteenth-century prose, by James Sutherland
Note on the composition of Gray's Elegy, by H. W. Garrod
John Langhorne, by Hugh Macdonald
Notes on some lesser poets of the eighteenth century, by W. L. Renwick
The formal parts of Johnson's letters, by R. W. Chapman
Mrs. Piozzi's letters, by James L. Clifford
The power of memory in Boswell and Scott, by F. A. Pottle
Robert Burns, by R. Dewar
Fanny Burney's novels, by Lord David Cecil
Elegant extracts, by Edmund Blunden
'The old Cumberland beggar' and the Wordsworthian unities, by H. V. D. Dyson
Matthew Arnold and eighteenth-century poetry, by Geoffrey Tillotson
A list of the writings of David Nichol Smith, 1896-1945, compiled by F. P. Wilson (p. 274-283)

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