1st Edition
Literary Criticism: A Short History Neo-Classical Criticism
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.
Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other... Read more
Volume Two: Neo-Classical Criticism; 8: Further Medieval Themes; 9: The Sixteenth Century; 10: English Neo-Classicism: Jonson and Dryden; 11: Dryden and Some Later Seventeenth-Century Themes; 12: Rhetoric and Neo-Classic Wit; 13: Addison and Lessing: Poetry as Pictures; 14: Genius, Emotion, and Association; 15: The Neo-Classic Universal: Samuel Johnson; Index
Biography
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Cleanth Brooks
