English literary criticism
Subtitle: the medieval phase
By: by J. W. H. Atkins
Publisher: Methuen & Co.
Published: 1952
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Criticism; History; English literature; History and criticism
Notes: A continuation of the plan outlined in ... [the author's] Literary criticism in antiquity. -- Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Introduction -- -- ch. 2.; title: The medieval inheritance -- -- ch. 3.; title: Early grammarians: Bede and Alcuin -- -- ch. 4.; title: The dawn of humanism: John of Salisbury -- -- ch. 5.; title: Medieval poetics: Geoffrey of Vinsauf and John of Garland -- -- ch. 6.; title: Check and counter-check to literary studies: John of Garland, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and Richard of Bury -- -- ch. 7.; title: Native literary problems: The owl and the nightingale, Wiclif, Chaucer -- -- ch. 8.; title: Native literary problems (continued): Caxton, Hawes, Skelton -- -- ch. 9.; title: Conclusion -- -- Appendix:; title: Summary of medieval poetic (Geoffrey of Vinsauf).