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. Volume Three focuses on Romantic criticism.

Résumé
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. Volume Three focuses on Romantic criticism.

Contenu

Vol 3: Romantic Criticism; 16: Poetic Diction: Wordsworth and Coleridge; 17: German Ideas; 18: Imagination: Wordsworth and Coleridge; 19: Peacock vs. Shelley: Rhapsodic Didacticism; 20: The Arnoldian Prophecy; 21: The Real and the Social: Art as Propaganda; 22: Art for Art's Sake; 23: Expressionism: Benedetto Croce; 24: The Historical Method: A Retrospect; Index