Collected essays in literary criticism
By: by Herbert Read.
Publisher: Faber and Faber ltd.
Published: 1951
Place of publication: London
Language: ger
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Literature.; Criticism.
Notes: "First published in October 1938."

Second edition.

Includes essays first published in the author's The sense of glory, 1929, Form in modern poetry, 1932, and In defense of Shelley. The remainder of the essays are either from his Reason and romanticism, 1926, or have not hitherto appeared in book form. cf. Acknowledgements.
Table of contents: value: General theories: The nature of poetry. The nature of criticism.; value: Particular studies; Froissart. Malory. Descartes. Swift. Vauvenargues. Tobias Smollet. Sterne. Hawthorne. Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Bagehot. Coventry Patmore. Gerard Manley Hopkins. Henry James.