Literary criticism : a reading / edited by B. Das and Jatindra Mohan Mohanty

Extracts from Timber, or, Discoveries -- Ben Jonson From preface to fables, ancient and modern -- John Dryden The pleasures of imagination -- Joseph Addison From preface to the plays of Shakespeare -- Samuel Johnson From preface to lyrical ballads -- W. Wordsworth From biographia literaria -- S. T. Coleridge From on poetry in general -- William Hazlitt The study of poetry -- Mathew Arnold Function of criticism at the present time -- Mathew Arnold From the renaissance -- Walter Pater The function of criticism -- T. S. Eliot To criticize the critic -- T. S. Eliot Poetry: a note on ontology -- John Crowe Ransom The nature of criticism -- Herbert Read the imagination -- I. A. Richards Metaphor -- I. A. Richards The tragic fallacy -- J. W. Krutch Literary criticism and philosophy -- F. R. Leavis Reality and sincerety -- F. R. Leavis The sense of the past -- Lionel Trilling From how many children had lady Macbeth -- L. C. Knights Marvell's garden -- William Empson The language of paradox -- Cleanth Brooks The international fallacy -- W. K. Wimsatt, Jr and M. C. Beardsley Myth, Fiction, and Displacement -- Northrop Frye Dissociation of sensibility: modern symbolist readings of literary history -- Frank Kermode Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences -- Jacques Derrida From work to text -- Roland Barthes