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So many literary critics have practiced their trade that a complete history of literary criticism would either have to be impossibly long or would have to squeeze in so many names and dates as to be practically unreadable. This modest work, then, contents itself with offering a chart of the
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. Comprising four volumes, books in this series cover Classical criticism, Neo-Classical criticism, Romantic cr
A THE Book of the Week How many people know that Aristotle thought the best tragedies were those which ended happily? Or that the first mention of the motor car in literature may have been in 1791 in Boswell's Life of Johnson? Or that it was not unknown in the nineteenth century for book reviews to
<p><script type='text/javascript"' src="http://books.google.com/books/previewlib.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615636');</script></p> <blockquote><b>A THE Book of the Week</b></blockquote> <p>Did you know that Aristotle thought the best tragedi