Besides critics proper, such as Bacon and Johnson, the following poets write on the principles of their own art: Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Young. The present selection of the critical essays, beginning with Sidney's Apology for Poetry and closing with Warton's Preface to Milton's Minor Poems, follows the main movements and counter-movements of English critical thought from the Renaissance to the Revival of Romanticism.Keywords: Sir Philip Sidney Thomas Campion Minor Poems Ben Jonson Samuel Daniel Critical Essays Critical Thought Own Art Warton Romanticism Dryden Apology Preface Poets Revival Bacon Pope Renaissance