British Literary Criticism
Sir Philip Sidney(1554—1586)
The Defence of Poesy(5 Excerpts)
John Dryden(1631—1700)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy(3 Excerpts)
Alexander Pope(1688—1744)
An Essay on Criticism(Excerpt:Part 2)
Samuel Johnson(1709—1784)
The Perface to Shakespeare(2 Excerpts)
William Wordsworth(1700—1850)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads(3 Excerpts)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772—1834)
Biographia Literaria(Excerpt)
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792—1822)
A Defence of Poetry(2 Excerpts)
Matthew Amold(1822—1888)
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time(2 Excerpts)
Oscar Wilde(1854—1900)
Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray
The Decay of Lying
Edward Morgan Forster(1879—1970)
Aspects of the Novel(Excerpt)
Virginia Woolf(1882—1941)
Modem Fiction
Ivor Armstrong Richards(1893—1979)
Practical Criticism(Excerpt)
American Literary Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803—1882)
The Poet
Edgar Allan Poe(1809—1849)
The Philosophy of Composition
Henry James(1843—1916)
The Art of Fiction
Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888—1965)
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Meyer Howard Abrams(1912— )
The Mirror and the Lamp(Excerpt from Chapter 1)
Susan sontag(1933— )
Against Interpretation