Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

Charles William Eliot, Various tarafından

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Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo, Johnson, Knox, Newton, Raleigh, Spenser, Taine, Whitman and Wordsworth. Eliot wrote in his preface to these prefaces, "No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. Here, after the long labor of the work is over, the author descends from his platform, and speaks with his reader as man to man, disclosing his hopes and fears, seeking sympathy for his difficulties, offering defence or defiance, according to his temper, against the criticisms which he anticipates." (Summary by DSayers)

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1Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings by William Caxton, Part 1

2422

2Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings, Part 2

2119

3Dedication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

3102

4General Syllabus by John Calvin

620

5Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies by Nicolaus Copernicus

950

6Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland by John Knox

364

7Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

924

8Preface to The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh, Part 1

2572

9Preface to The History of the World, Part 2

2755

10Preface to The History of the World, Part 3

1763

11Preface to The History of the World, Part 4

1493

12Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna by Sir Francis Bacon, Part 1

2176

13Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 2

2008

14Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 3

866

15Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays by John Heminge

363

16Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton

518

17Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern by John Dryden, Part 1

2598

18Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2

2536

19Preface to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

1219

20Preface to the English Dictionary by Samuel Johnson

2170

21To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson

2992

22Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson, Part 1

3030

23Preface to Shakespeare, Part 2

3116

24Preface to Shakespeare, Part 3

1858

25Introduction to The Propylaen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2814

26Prefaces to Poems by William Wordsworth, Part 1

2283

27Prefaces to Poems, Part 2

2443

28Prefaces to Poems, Part 3

2104

29Prefaces to Poems, Part 4

2142

30Prefaces to Poems, Part 5

1981

31Preface to Cromwell by Victor Hugo, Part 1

2817

32Preface to Cromwell, Part 2

2720

33Preface to Cromwell, Part 3

2280

34Preface to Cromwell, Part 4

2215

35Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Part 1

2524

36Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 2

2093

37Introduction to The History of English Literature by H. A. Taine, Part 1

1752

38Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 2

2160

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