Literary criticism: a short history / by William K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks

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PART--I 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 PART--II Further medieval themes The sixteenth century English neo-classicism: Jonson and Dryden Dryden and some later seventeenth-century themes Rhetoric and neo-classical wit Addison and lessing: poetry as pictures Genius, emotion and association The neo-classic universal: Samuel Johnson PART--III 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 PART--IV 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 PART--V Epilogue