title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory
(Periods of European Literature, vol. II) | Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933 | en | | | | Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Romances -- History and criticism; Allegory | 2007-05-24 |
Criticism and Fiction | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | | | Criticism; Fiction -- History and criticism | 2004-10-22 |
Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 | Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933 | en | | The kinds of criticism -- I. Crabbe -- II. Hogg -- III. Sydney Smith -- IV. Jeffrey -- V. Hazlitt -- VI. Moore -- VII. Leigh Hunt -- VIII. Peacock -- IX. Wilson -- X. De Quincey -- XI. Lockhart -- XII. Praed -- XIII. Borrow -- Appendix: A. De Quincey. B. Lockhart. | | English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 2009-11-12 |
A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend,
with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver | Anonymous | en | | | Kallich, Martin [Editor] | Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver’s travels; Voyages, Imaginary -- History and criticism; Satire, English -- History and criticism; Travelers in literature | 2009-06-21 |
Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787)
A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William
Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning | | en | | | Wimsatt, William K. (William Kurtz), 1907-1975 [Editor] | Parodies; Ballads, English -- England -- History and criticism | 2007-07-16 |
The Gate of Appreciation
Studies in the Relation of Art to Life | Noyes, Carleton Eldredge, 1872-1950 | en | | The impulse to expression -- The attitude of response -- Technique and the layman -- The value of the medium -- The background of art -- The service of criticism -- Beauty and common life -- The arts of form -- Representation -- The personal estimate. | | Art criticism; Aesthetics; Art appreciation | 2008-11-07 |
Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707)
From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) | Cobb, Samuel, 1675-1713 | en | | A Discourse on criticism and the liberty of writing. In a Letter to Richard Carter Esq; late of the Middle-Temple, now living in Barbadoes. --
A Discourse Of Poetry. 1. Its Antiquity. 2. Its Progress. 3. Its Improvement. A poem. | Bredvold, Louis I. [Author of introduction, etc.] | | 2004-12-30 |
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years | Atkins, Elizabeth, 1891- | en | | | | Poetry; English poetry -- History and criticism; American poetry -- History and criticism | 2005-04-01 |
Selected Essays | Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 | en | | A criticism of the Hegelian philosophy of right -- On the Jewish question -- On the King of Prussia and social reform -- Moralising criticism and critical morality: A polemic against Karl Heinzen -- Proudhon -- French materialism -- The English revolution. | Stenning, H. J. (Henry James), 1889- [Translator] | | 2007-05-22 |
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | Worries of a Winter Walk -- Summer Isles of Eden -- Wild Flowers of the Asphalt -- A Circus in the Suburbs -- A She Hamlet -- The Midnight Platoon -- The Beach at Rockaway -- Sawdust in the Arena -- At a Dime Museum -- American Literature in Exile -- The Horse Show -- The Problem of the Summer -- Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago -- From New York into New England -- The Art of the Adsmith -- The Psychology of Plagiarism -- Puritanism in American Fiction -- The What and How in Art -- Politics in American Authors Storage -- "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o". | | Fiction -- History and criticism; American fiction -- History and criticism; Criticism | 2004-10-22 |
Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. | O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928 | en | | | | Epic literature, Irish -- History and criticism; Tales -- Ireland -- History and criticism; Civilization, Celtic, in literature; Language and culture -- Ireland; Bards and bardism | 2005-05-01 |
Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) | Echard, Lawrence, 1670?-1730 | en | | | Barnard, John [Commentator] | Terence -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800; Plautus, Titus Maccius -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800; Latin drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800; Latin drama (Comedy) -- Greek influences -- Early works to 1800; Theater -- Rome -- Early works to 1800; Theater -- History -- To 500; Greece -- In literature | 2009-08-13 |
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 | en | | | | Poets, English; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism | 2003-11-01 |
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 | en | | | | Poets, English; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism | 2003-11-01 |
Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare | Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962 | en | | | | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual | 2009-10-10 |
The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained | Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 | en | | | Gillett, E. H. (Ezra Hall), 1823-1875 [Translator] | Bible. N.T. Peter -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. N.T. Jude -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. N.T. Jude; Bible. N.T. Peter | 2009-08-12 |
When Winter Comes to Main Street | Overton, Grant Martin, 1887-1930 | en | | | | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | 2008-11-01 |
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | | | American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature and society -- United States; United States -- Civilization; Criticism -- United States | 2004-09-16 |
Suspended Judgments
Essays on Books and Sensations | Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 | en | | The art of discrimination -- Montaigne -- Pascal -- Voltaire -- Rousseau -- Balzac -- Victor Hugo -- Guy de Maupassant -- Anatole France -- Paul Verlaine -- Remy de Gourmont -- William Blake -- Byron -- Emily Brontë -- Joseph Conrad -- Henry James -- Oscar Wilde -- Suspended judgment. | | French literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism | 2008-11-05 |
Essays in Little | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | Alexandre Dumas -- Mr. Stevenson's works -- Thomas Haynes Bayly -- Theodore de Banville -- Homer and the study of Greek -- The last fashionable novel -- Thackeray -- Dickens -- Adventures of Buccaneers -- The sagas -- Charles Kingsley -- Charles Lever: his books, adventures and misfortunes -- The poems of Sir Walter Scott -- John Bunyan -- Letter to a young journalist -- Mr.Kipling's stories | Adams, William Davenport, 1828-1891 [Compiler] | Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 1999-01-01 |
Views and Reviews
Essays in appreciation: Literature | Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903 | en | | Dickens -- Thackeray -- Disraeli -- Dumas -- Meredith -- Byron -- Hugo -- Heine -- Arnold -- Homer and Theocritus -- Rabelais -- Shakespeare -- Sidney -- Tour neur -- Walton -- Herrick -- Locker -- Banville -- Dobson -- Berlioz -- George Eliot -- Borrow -- Balzac -- Labiche -- Champfleury -- Longfellow -- Tennyson -- Gordon Hake -- Landor -- Hood -- Lever -- Jefferies -- Gay -- Essays and essayists -- Boswell -- Congreve -- Arabian nights entertainments -- Richardson -- Tolstoï -- Fielding. | | Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism | 2007-08-08 |
A Book of Sibyls
Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen | Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 | en | | | | Women authors, English -- Biography; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 2009-11-09 |
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures | Poore, Henry Rankin, 1859-1940 | en | | | | Composition (Art); Art criticism | 2008-09-16 |
Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism | Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton), 1852-1931 | en | | | | | 2008-01-16 |
Every Man His Own Poet
Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book | Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell), 1849-1923 | en | | | | Poetry -- History and criticism; English wit and humor | 2007-12-31 |