1st Edition

Spenser's Faerie Queene Warton's Observations and Hurd's Letters

Edited By David Fairer
720 Pages
by Routledge

This set publishes two of the most influential critical works of the eighteenth century together for the first time. Richard Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance and the second (enlarged) edition of Thomas Warton's Observations on the Fairy Queen appeared within a few months of each other in 1762. These two books, which together represented a new 'historical' criticism, established Spenser's... Read more
Warton's Observations 1. Warton's Observations 2. Letters on Chivalry and Romance

Biography

David Fairer