English belles-lettres from A.D. 907 to 1834 ... / with special introduction and biographical notes by Oliver H.G. Leigh.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Universal classics library.
Other Authors: Alfred, King of England, 849-899
Boethius, -524
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568
Gascoigne, George, -1577
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586
Selden, John, 1584-1654
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Leight, Oliver H. G. (Herbert Gordon)
Language:English
Published: Washington ; London : M.W. Dunne, [1901], [©1901]
Series:Universal classics library.
Subjects:
English literature.
Physical Description:xi, 403 pages : color frontispiece, plate ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The consolations of philosophy. Version of Boethius, by Alfred the Great
  • Toxophilus, the schools of shootynge, by Roger Ascham
  • The steel glass, a satire by George Gascoigne
  • An apologie for poetrie, by Sir Philip Sidney
  • The table-talk of John Seiden
  • Hydriotaphia (urn burnal) by Sir Thomas Browne
  • The pit of law, and history of John Bull, by John Arbuthnot
  • On reticence in criticism, by Henry St. John, lord Bolingbroke
  • Poems, by Thomas Chatterton
  • Biographia literaria, by S.T. Coleridge.