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Description edit
This highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Wordsworth: Add a description of this character.
- Shakespeare
- Milton
- Coleridge
- Dr. Johnson
- Shelley
- John Keble
- Hazlitt
- Aristotle
- Carlyle
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Schiller
- Dryden
- Bentham
- Keats
- Locke
- Blair
- Hume
- Richard Hurd
- Longinus
- Addison
- John Stuart Mill
- John Dennis
- Smith
- Horace
- Blake
- Arnold
- Byron
- Shaftesbury
- Reynolds
- Joseph Warton
- Hobbes
- Batteux
- Lowth
- De Quincey
- Gerard
- Bodmer
- Peacock
- Adam
- Sidney
- James Beattie
- I. A. Richards
- John Mill
- Davenant
- Kant
First Sentence edit
TO POSE AND ANSWER aesthetic questions in terms of the relation of art to the artist, rather than to external nature, or to the audience, or to the internal requirements of the work itself, was the characteristic tendency of modern criticism up to a few decades ago, and it continues to be the propensity of a great many-perhaps the majority-of critics today.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 25 of 39 in Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books: The Board's List. (authoritative list)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 801
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory › Semiotics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Movements & Periods › Romanticism
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies
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