Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

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Wayne State University Press, 1962 - Literary Criticism - 659 pages

This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700.

This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of value at present, either in developing our own critical thought or in interpreting the most important literature of their own ages.

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Contents

ALEXANDER POPE
1
JOSEPH ADDISON
24
FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE
35
Tom Jones Introductions to Books V and VIII
60
EDWARD YOUNG
101
RICHARD HURD
112
THOMAS THORILD
118
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
133
The Poet
373
WALT WHITMAN
394
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
413
VISSARION BELINSKI
435
JOHN RUSKIN
449
The Relation of Art to Morals
461
CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTEBEUVE
468
HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE
479

On the Pathetic
150
MADAME DE STAËL
160
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL
172
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
185
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
198
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
221
Shakespeares Judgment Equal to His Genius
234
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
240
WILLIAM HAZLITT
256
CHARLES LAMB
288
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
296
Preface to Cromwell
320
EDGAR ALLAN POE
340
The Poetic Principle
346
MATTHEW ARNOLD
494
The Study of Poetry
503
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE
511
WALTER HORATIO PATER
524
Romanticism
530
HENRY JAMES
538
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
562
FERDINAND BRUNETIÈRE
600
The Object of Art
613
BENEDETTO CROCE
624
General Bibliography
647
Index
655
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