The Mirror and the Lamp
Subtitle: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Galaxy Books)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: September 15, 1971
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195014716
First sentence: TO POSE AND ANSWER aesthetic questions in terms of the relation of art to the artist, rather than to external nature, or to the audience, or to the internal requirements of the work itself, was the characteristic tendency of modern criticism up to a few decades ago, and it continues to be the propensity of a great many-perhaps the majority-of critics today.
Description: A study of different trends in English criticism during the first several decades of this century.