Literary criticism; an introductory reader
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 629
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what is criticism? -- Ion / Plato -- The Republic : book X / Plato -- The Poetics / Aristotle -- Letter to Can Grande Della Scala / Dante Alighieri -- Preface to Troilus and Cressida : the grounds of criticism in tragedy / John Dryden -- Milton's poetical works / Samuel Johnson -- The Metaphysical poets / Samuel Johnson -- Of the cause of the pleasure we derive from tragic objects / Freidrich Schiller -- Preface to Lyrical ballads (1802) / William Wordsworth -- Biographia literaria : chapters XIV, XV, and XVII / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Sanity of true genius / Charles Lamb -- Coriolanus / William Hazlitt -- The Literature of knowledge and the literature of power / Thomas de Quincy -- Preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman -- Introduction to History of English literature / Hippolyte Taine -- The Study of poetry / Matthew Arnold -- Style / Walter Pater -- Poetry for poetry's sake / A.C. Bradley -- The Symbolism of poetry / W.B. Yeats -- The Serious artist / Ezra Pound -- The Theme of the three caskets / Sigmund Freud -- Stephen's discourse / James Joyce -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and The scarlet letter / D.H. Lawrence -- Principles of literary criticism : chapters IV-VII / I.A. Richards -- Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot -- The Metaphysical poets / T.S. Eliot -- Is verse a dying technique? / Edmund Wilson -- Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish -- Literary criticism : poet, poem, and reader / Cleanth Brooks -- Literature as an institution / Harry Levin -- Is literary criticism possible? / Allan Tate -- The International fallacy / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley -- Literary theory, criticism, and history / René Wellek and Austin Warren -- Poetry and abstract thought / Paul Valéry -- Balzac : lost illusions / Georg Lukács -- On the principles of Shakespeare interpretation / G. Wilson Knight -- Why write? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Literature and society / F.R. Leavis -- Odysseus' scar / Eric Auerbach -- Philosophy, literature, and the history of ideas / Ronald Crane -- Byron and the Byronic in history / Jacques Barzun -- Myth, fiction, and displacement / Northrop Frye -- Partial enchantments of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- Nature, humanism, tragedy / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- Against interpretation / Susan Sontag.