Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books by VARIOUS and ELIOT, Charles William
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Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Whos 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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Preface to The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton
17/11/2021 Duration: 08min -
Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays by John Heminge
17/11/2021 Duration: 06min -
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Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
17/11/2021 Duration: 15min -
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Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies by Nicolaus Copernicus
17/11/2021 Duration: 15min -
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Prologues & Epilogues to the History of Troy and other writings by William Caxton, Part 1
17/11/2021 Duration: 40min -