Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader

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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern Criticism and Theory (Longman 1988) also edited by David Lodge which anthologises contemporary criticism as it has developed through structuralism and post-structuralist theory. Together these volumes provide the most comprehensive survey available of traditional and radical literary theory in action. The critics collected together in this volume have been drawn from England America and Europe and each essay has been prefaced by an editors introduction which suggests the historical and methodological significance of the piece and gives bibliographical and biographical information. This writers collected are: M. H. Abrams W. B. Yeats Sigmund Freud Henry James Ezra Pound T. S Eliot Virginia Woolf T.E. Hulme I. A. Richards D. H. Lawrence E. M. Forster William Empson G. Wilson Hight C. G. Jung Maud Bodkin Christopher Caudwell L. C. Knights John Crowe Ransom Edmund Wilson Paul Valry D. W. Harding Lionel Trilling Cleanth Brooks Yvor Wiinters Erich Auerbach W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley George Orwell Jean-Paul Sartre Mark Schorer Francis Fergusson Northrop Frye C. S. Lewis Leslie Fielder Alain Robbe-Grillet George Lukcs Richard Hoggart Walter J. Ong Norman O. Brown Ian Watt Claude Lvi-Strauss Ren Welleck Wayne Booth Raymond Williams R. S. Crane Marshall McLuhan George Steiner Susan Sontag W. H. Auden Frank Kermode.