Critical essays
By: Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, editors in chief ; Clifton Fadiman, associate editor.
Contributors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-; Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Series: Gateway to the great books -- 5
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Chicago; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.
Other titles: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes: Complements Great books of the western world (AC 1 G7 1952); includes only short works.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: value: Virginia Woolf / How should one read a book?; value: Matthew Arnold / The study of poetry. Sweetness and light; value: Sainte-Beuve / What is a classic? Montaigne; value: Sir Francis Bacon / Of beauty. Of discourse. Of studies; value: David Hume / Of the standard of taste; value: Arthur Schopenhauer / On style. On some forms of literature. On the comparative place of interest and beauty in works of art; value: Friedrich Schiller / On simple and sentimental poetry; value: Percy Bysshe Shelley / A defence of poetry; value: Walt Whitman / Preface to Leaves of grass; value: William Hazlitt / My first acquaintance with poets. On Swift. Of persons one would wish to have seen; value: Charles Lamb / My first play. Dream children, a reverie. Sanity of true genius; value: Samuel Johnson / Preface to Shakespeare; value: Thomas de Quincey / Literature of knowledge and literature of power. On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth; value: Thomas Stearns Eliot / Dante. Tradition and the individual talent.