Critiques and essays in criticism, 1920-1948
Subtitle: representing the achievement of modern British and American critics ; with a foreword by Cleanth Brooks.
Publisher: Ronald Press Co.
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 571
Subjects: Criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; Poetics
Notes: "Much of this material has not received previous book publication, is available only in books and journals which are now out of print, or appears here for the first time."

"A selected bibliography of modern criticism: 1920-1948": p. 519-571.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Robert Wooster Stallman -- Foreword / Clenth Brooks -- The Nature and Function of Poetry -- Romanticism and Classicism / T.E. Hulme -- The Making of a Poem / Stephen Spender -- Poetry: A Note on Ontology / John Crowe Ransom -- The Metaphysical Poets / T.S. Eliot -- Tension in Poetry / Allen Tate -- The Language of Paradox / Cleanth Brooks -- The Use of "Negative" Emotions / Edgell Rickword -- Pure and Impure Poetry / Robert Penn Warren -- The Social Function of Poetry / T.S. Eliot -- Critiques: How to Criticize the Work -- The Milk of Concord: An Essay of Life-Themes in Macbeth / G. Wilson Knight -- Coriolanus / D.A. Traversi -- The Unity of King Lear / Robert B. Heilman -- Shelley / F.R. Leavis -- Four Quartets: A Commentary / Helen L. Gardner -- Critical Methods and Problems -- Preliminary Problesm / Yvor Winters -- Meaning and Form in Art -- The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art / Rene Wellek -- Psychology and Form / Kenneth Burke -- Lexicon Rhetoricae / Kenneth Burke -- Double Plots / William Empson -- The Outline of Poetic Theory / Elder Olson -- The Bridle of Pegasus / I.A. Richards -- Spatial Form in Modern Literature / Joseph Frank -- The Problem of Belief -- Poetry and Beliefs / I.A. Richards -- Poetry and Belief in Thomas Hardy / Delmore Schwartz -- The Religious Problem in G.M. Hopkins / W.H. Gardner -- The Later Poetry of W.B. Yeats / R.P. Blackmur -- The Impersonal Element -- Tradition and the Individual Talent / T.S. Eliot -- The Method of the Objective Correlative -- Hamlet and His Problems / T.S. Eliot -- The Objective Correlative of T.S. Eliot / Eliseo Vivas -- The Affective Fallacy / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley -- The Boundaries of Criticism -- The Enabling Act of Criticism / R.P. Blackmur -- Kinds of Critics and Criticism -- Sainte-Evremond, Taine, Sainte-Beuve / Martin Turnell -- Baudelaire, Remy de Gourmont / Martin Turnell -- Historical Criticism / Edmund Wilson -- The Americanism of Van Wyck Brooks / F.W. Dupee -- I.A. Richards / D.G. James -- The New Critics / Robert Wooster Stallman -- A Selected Bibliography of Modern Criticism: 1920-1948.