LITERARY CRITICISM

 Prof Abdelhamid Fouda 

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LITERARY CRITICISM - Important critics with their important works ( Each one will be discussed separately) 

  A) Greek critics

     1. Socrates 

     2. Plato - Republic 

     3. Aristotle - Poetics 

  B) Roman critics 

     1.Horace - Ars Poetica 

     2.Longinus- On the sublime 

    3).Quintilian - Institutio Oratoria 

   C) Middle Age critics 

    1. Philip Sidney - An Apology for Poetry 1595

    2. John Dryden - *Astraca Redux 

* Essay on Dramatic Poesy 

   3. Alexander Pope -  An Essay on criticism

   4. Samuel Johnson -  Preface to shakespeare 

   5. Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy 

   6. Ben Jonson - Discoveries or Timber 

Conversations with Drummund 

  

   D) Romantic Critics 

   1. William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballad 

   2. S.T.Coleridge -  Biographia literaria 

   3. John keats 

   4. P.B.Shelley - A defence of poetry 

   5. Thomas love Peacock - Stimulus for the defence of Poetry by shelley 

  6. William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespeare's plays 

    E) Victorian critics 

   1. Matthew Arnold - *Culture and Anarchy 

* The study of poetry-1888

* On translating Homer - 1861 

  2. G.M.Hopkins - inscape and instress

 

    F) Modern critics 

      1. T.S.Eliot - * The second wood 

 * What is a Classic 

 * Selected Essays

 *. Tradition and individual talent