Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Bibliomania and the Scarcity of Texts 5
4. The Retrospective Review: A General Survey 11
5. The Critical Background 21
6. The 'Retrospective and the New Approach 29
7. The 'Retrospective' and Some Individual Reputations 37
8. Conclusion 57
9. Collections and Anthologies of Seventeenth-Century Poetry 58
10. The Annotations in the Set of the Retrospective Review in the Central Library, Manchester 59
11. Notes 61
12. Bibliography 70