Edmund Burke

Daniel E. Ritchie is professor of English and was founder of the Western Humanities Program at Bethel University, USA. He has written widely on Burke, Pope, and other subjects of eighteenth-century literature.

"Ritchie's collection provides "an introduction for the general reader by reproducing essays on the most important issues in Burke's works" ... [A]ppraise[s] Burke as man of letters, as reformer, and as founder of modern conservatism."-E. J. Eisenach, Choice "Daniel Ritchie has given the scholarly world a comprehensive and useful anthology of criticism of Edmund Burke's writings... [T]his volume is an extremely valuable addition to the literature about Edmund Burke. It is carefully annotated and will be useful to scholars and general readers alike who have an interest in one of our civilization's greatest political minds."-Dante Germino, The University Bookman "Daniel Ritchie has compiled an anthology of essays about different aspects of Burke's writings and personality, running in time from 1809 to the present."-Charles Coulombe, Reflections

• One: Burke and the Literary Imagination; 1: Coleridge’s Fragments on Burke; 2: Hazlitt’s Criticism of Burke; 3: Rhetoric; 4: Macaulay’s Comments on Burke; 5: Mr. Macaulay; 6: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time; 7: Burke and the Sense of Process; 8: Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event; 9: The Politics of Taste; Two: Burke and Revolution; 10: Burke’s Conservative Revolution; 11: A Revolution Not Made, but Prevented; Three: Burke and Constitutional, Party Government; 12: The British Constitution: The Rule of Gentlemen; 13: Constitutional Government and Revolution; Four: Burke and the Radical Mind; 14: The Organic Society and Human Perfection; 15: Ireland, “Circumstances,” and Modern Anti-Communism; Five: Burke and the Conservative Mind; 16: Religion and Politics; 17: Burke and the Moral Imagination; 18: Burke and the Natural Law; 19: The Organic Premise; 20: Prescription of Government; 21: Sources of Conservatism