History and Principles of Literary Criticism

includes index and biblioraphy

Nature and Function of Literary criticism .................1 Types of Literary criticism ..........10 Some Critical and Literary terms ........16 Phases of Literary criticism or Literary criticism through the Ages or Literary criticism at a Glance ..........................22 Greek criticism : Palto............26 Greek criticism : Aristotle (384-322 B.C).................38 Graeco-Roman Criticism : Horace; Ars Poetica.................83 Graeco-roman Criticism : Longinus , On the sublime .........95 Renaissance criticism : General Charateristics ................110 Renaissance criticism : Sir Philip Sidney and Apology for Poetry ...........114 Renaissance criticism : Ben Jonson ............128 Neo-Classicism: General Characteristics ................140 Neo-Classic Criticism : John Dryden and His contemporaries (1660-1700).............145 Neo-Classic Criticism : Addison and Pope .............169 New-classic Criticism : Dr. Samuel Johnson ...............178 Romantic Criticism : General Characteristics ..........204 Romantic Criticism : Coleridge ........208 Romantic Criticism : William Wordsworth ...........227 Romantic Criticism : Shelley: Defence of Poetry.............260 Victorian Criticism : General Characteristic .........270 Victorian Criticism :Matthew Arnold.............274 Victorian Criticism : Walter Pater .............299 20th Century Criticism : General Characteristics ...........311 20th Century Criticism : T S Eliot ................315 20th Century Criticism : The new Criticism ...................351 20th Century Criticism : I A Richards-Textual and Psychological Approach ..............359 Recent University Questions with Complete Answers.............365