Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 211 [electronic resource] : critical discussion of the works of fifteenth-, sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, and other creative writers / Lawrence J. Trudeau, project editor.
Colley Cibber, 1671-1757 : English playwright, poet, and autobiographer -- Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched, 1713-1762 : German playwright, translator, and poet -- Laetitia Pilkington, 1709?-1750 : Irish memoirist, poet, and nonfiction writer.
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Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.