Prefaces and Prologues. Vol. 39. The Harvard Classics

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—Introduction

Harvard Classics, Vol. 39

Prefaces and Prologues

To Famous Books

Each of the prefaces and prologues in this volume is a complete work of literature unto itself, offering a unique insight to the thoughts of its author.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Introductory Note

William Caxton

The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy

Title and Prologue to Book I

Epilogue to Book II

Epilogue to Book III

Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers

Prologue to Golden Legend

Prologue to Caton (1483)

Epilogue to Aesop (1483)

Proem to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Prologue to Malory’s King Arthur (1485)

John Calvin

Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

General Syllabus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies to Pope Paul III

John Knox

Preface to The History of the Reformation In Scotland

Edmund Spenser

Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh On The Faerie Queene

Sir Walter Raleigh

Preface to the History of the World

Paras. 1–25

Paras. 26–50

Paras. 51–74

Francis Bacon

Proœmium of the Instauratio Magna

Epistle Dedicatory to the Instauratio Magna

Preface to the Instauratio Magna

The Plan of the Instauratio Magna

Preface to the Novum Organum

Henrie Condell and Iohn Heminge

Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays

Sir Isaac Newton

Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

John Dryden

Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern

Henry Fielding

Preface to Joseph Andrews

Samuel Johnson

Preface to the English Dictionary

Paras. 1–50

Paras. 51–94

Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield

Preface to Shakespeare

Paras. 1–40

Paras. 41–80

Paras. 81–120

Paras. 121–161

J. W. von Goethe

Introduction to the Propyläen

William Wordsworth

Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads

Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Appendix to Lyrical Ballads

Preface to Poems

Essay Supplementary to Preface

Victor Hugo

Preface to Cromwell

Paras. 1–30

Paras. 31–60

Paras. 61–90

Paras. 91–120

Paras. 121–143

Walt Whitman

Preface to Leaves of Grass

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

Introduction to the History of English Literature

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