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Ritson will advertise sour ale against his mild. Lowndes has contrived a surreptitious brewing; and another, viz. our text without notes (your true critical hops) will also soon be in tap’ (Correspondence of Thomas Warton, 481). , 1964), 14–17. Robert Walker’s challenge to the Tonson monopoly on Shakespeare is also discussed (12–15). See Dawson, ‘Warburton, Hanmer, and the 1745 Edition of Shakespeare’, Studies in Bibliography, 2 (1949–50), 35–48. For more on the conflict with Walker, see Harry M.

The longest, at 284 pages, contains the additional poems for the authors in the 1749 publication; the newly inducted poets occupy the next 95 pages; and Swift closes out the volume with 96 pages. 44 ‘Preface’, The Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets. Our Native Classics 31 narrowly on this threesome to explain ‘the formation of the English literary canon into its canonical form’. The Hebrew Bible makes room for Zephaniah and Haggai, not just the Pentateuch, Job, the Psalms, and Isaiah; the New Testament is defined not only by the Gospels, Paul’s letters to the Christians in Rome and Corinth, and Revelation, but also by Paul’s letter to Philemon and the epistles of James and Jude.

Booksellers, in short, had to keep pace with the critics, producing and marketing the cultural goods themselves. In this respect the ordering of the arts was no esoteric exercise, but part of a larger, diversely sanctioned investment in cultural capital, one that drew upon the resources—and contributed to the profit—of everyone who participated in it, whether as producers, consumers, or commentators. 28 My quotations of Warton are taken from Kramnick (‘Making of the English Canon’, 1087– 9, 1092–3, and Making the English Canon, 139–44), though I am setting them up to support an alternative reading.

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