Publisher's Synopsis
This is the second in the Penguin Classics four-volume series of English critical writings from the Renaissance to the 19th century. This volume covers the period 1660-1770 and includes the major texts by Dryden, Pope and Johnson on the act and art of poetry, as well as less finished reflections and critical essays by a wide variety of other practitioners. since the novel comes of age in this period the anthology gives considerable space to texts concerned with the art of fiction.
