Literary Criticism

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 Four focuses on Modern criticism.

William K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Cleanth Brooks

Volume Four: Modern Criticism; 25: Tragedy and Comedy: The Internal Focus; 26: Symbolism; 27: I. A. Richards: A Poetics of Tension; 28: The Semantic Principle; 29: Eliot and Pound: An Impersonal Art; 30: Fiction and Drama: The Gross Structure; 31: Myth and Archetype; Part Five: 32: Epilogue; Index