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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books by Various and Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926)

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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books by Various and Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926)

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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  1. 39

    Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Part 1

  2. 38

    Preface to Leaves of Grass, Part 2

  3. 37

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

  4. 36

    Introduction to The History of English Literature, Part 2

  5. 35

    Preface to Cromwell by Victor Hugo, Part 1

  6. 34

    Preface to Cromwell, Part 2

  7. 33

    Preface to Cromwell, Part 3

  8. 32

    Preface to Cromwell, Part 4

  9. 31

    To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson

  10. 30

    Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson, Part 1

  11. 29

    Preface to Shakespeare, Part 2

  12. 28

    Preface to Shakespeare, Part 3

  13. 27

    Introduction to The Propylaen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  14. 26

    Prefaces to Poems by William Wordsworth, Part 1

  15. 25

    Prefaces to Poems, Part 2

  16. 24

    Prefaces to Poems, Part 3

  17. 23

    Prefaces to Poems, Part 4

  18. 22

    Prefaces to Poems, Part 5

  19. 21

    Preface to The History of the World, Part 4

  20. 20

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

  21. 19

    Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 2

  22. 18

    Preface and Plan of The Instauratio Magna, Part 3

  23. 17

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

  24. 16

    Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton

  25. 15

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

  26. 14

    Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, Part 2

  27. 13

    Preface to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

  28. 12

    Preface to the English Dictionary by Samuel Johnson

  29. 11

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

  30. 10

    Dedication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

  31. 9

    General Syllabus by John Calvin

  32. 8

    Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies by Nicolaus Copernicus

  33. 7

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

  34. 6

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

  35. 5

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

  36. 4

    Preface to The History of the World, Part 2

  37. 3

    Preface to The History of the World, Part 3

  38. 2

    Introductory Notes

  39. 1

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

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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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