Beschreibung:
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 Two focuses on Neo-Classical criticism.
Volume Two: Neo-Classical Criticism; 8: Further Medieval Themes; 9: The Sixteenth Century; 10: English Neo-Classicism: Jonson and Dryden; 11: Dryden and Some Later Seventeenth-Century Themes; 12: Rhetoric and Neo-Classic Wit; 13: Addison and Lessing: Poetry as Pictures; 14: Genius, Emotion, and Association; 15: The Neo-Classic Universal: Samuel Johnson; Index