Thomas Heywood ( ca. 1570-1641 ) was a professional man of the theater and miscellaneous writer who produced many more plays than the twenty - three or so that survive as his and had a hand in very many others .
A Critical History of English Literature
The Wartons are not distinguished poets , but they are of the first importance in the history of taste . Thomas Warton was also a scholar whose work on earlier English poetry was to have the most important consequences for the future of ...
A Critical History of English Literature: from the beginnings to the sixteenth century
A critical history of English literature: in four volumes