The making of literature
Subtitle: some principles of criticism examined in the light of ancient and modern theory
By: by R. A. Scott-James.
Publisher: Kennikat Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Port Washington, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of the 1928 ed.
Table of contents: title: The light from heaven --  The first critic -- The literature of power -- Before Plato -- “Imitation” -- The “poetics” -- Centuries of rhetoric -- The first romantic critic -- The dark ages -- Dante -- Emancipation -- Ben Jonson -- Nature methodized -- Dryden -- The logic of taste -- Classic and romantic -- Painting and poetry -- Inspiration -- The roaring furnaces -- The esemplastic imagination -- Coleridge and Goethe -- The method of Sainte-Beuve -- Matthew Arnold -- Art and morality -- Walter Pater -- Expressionism -- Some conclusions -- The novel -- The critic.