Young, Edward | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Forster, Harold. Edward Young: The Poet of the Night Thoughts 1683-1765. Alburgh, England: The Erskine Press, 1986, 434 p.
Recent biographical study of Young, drawing on the extensive correspondence of Young first published in 1971.
Criticism
Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953, 406 p.
A classic overview study of the Romantic critical tradition in the nineteenth century. It includes a discussion of natural genius and Young's Conjectures on Original Composition.
Bliss, Isabel St. John. "Young's Night Thoughts in Relation to Contemporary Christian Apologetics." PMLA XLIX, No. 1 (March 1934): 37-70.
Analysis of Young's major work in the context of eighteenth-century discussions of Christian...
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