In defense of reading
Subtitle: a reader's approach to literary criticism.
By: Edited by Reuben A. Brower and Richard Poirier.
Contributors: Poirier, Richard, joint ed.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; American literature -- History and criticism; Criticism -- English-speaking countries
Table of contents: title: Symbolic landscape in Wordsworth and Yeats / Paul de Man; title: North of Boston: Frost's poetry of dialogue / William H. Pritchard; title: Poetry in an age of prose: Arnold and Gray / Neil H. Hertz; title: The authority of the narrative voice in Paradise lost / Anne Davidson Ferry; title: The poet-readers of Wallace Stevens / Thomas B. Whitbread; title: New uses of adversity: tragic experience in The tempest / Stephen Kitay Orgel; title: King Lear and the theory of the "sight pattern" / Paul J. Alpers; title: Henry VIII: the conscience of the king / Paul Bertram; title: Swift and the common reader / Oswald Johnston; title: Heroic folly: Pope's satiric identity / Thomas R. Edwards, jr.; title: Generality in Augustan satire / William Youngren; title: Jane Austen's Emma: the truths and disguises of human disclosure / G. Armour Craig; title: That way madness lies: nature and human nature in Parkman's La Salle / William R. Taylor; title: Mark Twain, Jane Austen, and the imagination of society / Richard Poirier.