Literary Criticism A Reading

includes index and biblioraphy

Extracts from timber, or, discoveries .......1 From preface to fables, ancient and modern .....6 The pleasures of imagination .....19 From preface to the plays of shakespeare ....25 From preface to lyrical bullads ....34 From biographia literaria .......46 From on poetry in general .....59 The study of poetry .....66 Function of criticism at the present time ......91 From the renaissance .....117 The function of criticism ....125 To criticize the critic .....135 Poetry: A note on ontology .....150 The nature of criticism .......171 The imagination .....191 Metaphor .....202 The tragic fallacy .....217 Literary criticism and philosophy ....233 Reality and sincerety ....245 The sense of the past .....257 From how many children had lady macbeth ....272 The language of paradox .....315 The international fallacy .....333 Myth, Fiction, and Displacement .....349 Dissociation of sensibility: Modern symbolist readings of literary history ......369 Structure sign, and play in the discourse of the human sciences .....393 From work to text .....413