criticism

Celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers the author admires above all others, from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan.

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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine the contributions of forty-three nineteenth-century American literary critics and scholars to letters in the U.S.; each with a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

Presents Aristotle's "Poetics" in side-by-side English and Greek, followed by a discussion of the philosopher's ideas, covering such topics as poetic truth, art and morality, the function of tragedy, and the ideal tragic hero.