Literary criticism; a short history
[by] William K. Wimsatt, Jr. & Cleanth Brooks.
- [1st ed.]
- New York, Knopf, 1957.
- 755 p. illus. 24 cm.
pt. 1. Socrates and the rhapsode -- Aristotle's answer: poetry as structure -- Aristotle: tragedy and comedy -- The verbal medium: Plato and Aristotle -- Roman classicism: Horace -- Roman classicism: Longinus -- The neo-Platonic conclusion: Plotinus and some medieval themes -- pt. 2. Further medieval themes -- The sixteenth century -- English neo-classicism: Jonson and Dryden -- Dryden and some later seventeenth-century themes -- Rhetoric and neo-classic wit -- Addison and Lessing: poetry as pictures -- Genius, emotion, and association -- The neo-classic universal: Samuel Johnson -- pt. 3. Poetic diction: Wordsworth and Coleridge -- German ideas -- Imagination: Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Peacock vs. Shelley: rhapsodic didacticism -- The Arnoldian prophecy -- The real and the social: art as propaganda -- Art for art's sake -- Expressionism: Benedetto Croce -- The historical method: a retrospect -- pt. 4. Tragedy and comedy: the internal focus -- Symbolism -- I.A. Richards: a poetics of tension -- The semantic principle -- Eliot and Pound: an impersonal art -- Fiction and drama: the gross structure -- Myth and archetype -- pt. 5. Epilogue.
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Criticism--History. Literature--History and criticism.