Title: In defense of reading : a reader's approach to literary criticism /
Authors: Brower, Reuben Arthur, 1908-; Poirier, Richard
Publisher: Dutton,
Year: 1962
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; American literature History and criticism; Criticism
Contents: Symbolic landscape in Wordsworth and Yeats / Paul de Man -- North of Boston: Frost's poetry of dialogue / William H. Pritchard -- Poetry in an age of prose: Arnold and Gray / Neil H. Hertz -- The authority of the narrative voice in Paradise lost / Anne Davidson Ferry -- The poet-readers of Wallace Stevens / Thomas B. Whitbread -- New uses of adversity: tragic experience in The tempest / Stephen Kitay Orgel -- King Lear and the theory of the "sight pattern" / Paul J. Alpers -- Henry VIII: the conscience of the king / Paul Bertram -- Swift and the common reader / Oswald Johnston -- Heroic folly: Pope's satiric identity / Thomas R. Edwards, jr. -- Generality in Augustan satire / William Youngren -- Jane Austen's Emma: the truths and disguises of human disclosure / G. Armour Craig -- That way madness lies: nature and human nature in Parkman's La Salle / William R. Taylor -- Mark Twain, Jane Austen, and the imagination of society / Richard Poirier.