Criticism: The Major Texts - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0970803508 ISBN 13: 9780970803504

Publisher: Wolf Den Books, 2002

Synopsis

This new paperback edition is a reprint of a classic textbook by the late Walter Jackson Bate, noted literary scholar and two-time Pulitzer prize winner. It is a collection of important readings in literary criticism from Aristotle to the pre-theory part of the twentieth century. No other book currently available provides as worthwhile and comprehensible a selection of readings in literary criticism, including texts from classical humanism through the Renaissance, Neoclassical and Romantic traditions, and as far into contemporary literature as T.S Eliot, I.A. Richards and Edmund Wilson. This is an appropriate required or recommended text for courses in literary criticism at the graduate or undergraduate level. While aimed primarily at the college student, it is a valuable addition to the home library of the serious reader.

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About the Author

Walter Jackson Bate was an emeritus professor of English at Harvard University, where he taught for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of John Keats and Samuel Johnson. He died in 1999. John Paul Russo, professor of English at the University of Miami, worked closely with Dr. Bate as a graduate student at Harvard. He teaches poetics, criticism, and 18th-century literature. He lives in Miami, Florida.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wolf Den Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970803508
• ISBN 13: 9780970803504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 564
• Editor: Bate W. Jackson