This useful introduction to practical criticism for students offers an impressive range of closely analysed passages and exercises, in prose and verse.
This useful introduction to practical criticism for students offers an impressive range of closely analysed passages and exercises, in prose and verse.
Acknowledgements Preface: aims and intentions 1. Practical criticism and 'method' 2. Rhythm, tone and the dangers of eye-reading 3. Imagery, metaphor and visualisation 4. Early and late Shakespearean verse 5. Two epitaphs for Ben Jonson 6. An early draft of Blake's London 7. Relevance and irrelevance in response: another Blake poem 8. Lyrical grace and warmth: two seventeenth-century lyrics 9. Emotion and emotionality: Herbert's 'Life' and E. B. Browning's 'Irrepatrableness' 10. Meaning stated and meaning created: two more Herbert poems 11. Translations of a Latin poem 12. Shakespeare's verse: additional exercises 13. A case of idiosyncrasy: two poems by Hardy 14. More creation versus statement: Frost and Edward Thomas 15. Contrasting poems Jonson's 'To Heaven' and Donne's 'Thou Hast Made Me' 16. Prose 17. Extracts from novels: a passage from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda 18. Extracts from novels: a comparison of passages from Thackeray and Lawrence 19. Two passages about belief: Foerster and Forster 20. Aphorisms by Franklin and Lawrence 21. Two modern passages on literary criticism 22. Two pieces of eighteenth-century literary criticism Notes Exercises Index.
Acknowledgements Preface: aims and intentions 1. Practical criticism and 'method' 2. Rhythm, tone and the dangers of eye-reading 3. Imagery, metaphor and visualisation 4. Early and late Shakespearean verse 5. Two epitaphs for Ben Jonson 6. An early draft of Blake's London 7. Relevance and irrelevance in response: another Blake poem 8. Lyrical grace and warmth: two seventeenth-century lyrics 9. Emotion and emotionality: Herbert's 'Life' and E. B. Browning's 'Irrepatrableness' 10. Meaning stated and meaning created: two more Herbert poems 11. Translations of a Latin poem 12. Shakespeare's verse: additional exercises 13. A case of idiosyncrasy: two poems by Hardy 14. More creation versus statement: Frost and Edward Thomas 15. Contrasting poems Jonson's 'To Heaven' and Donne's 'Thou Hast Made Me' 16. Prose 17. Extracts from novels: a passage from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda 18. Extracts from novels: a comparison of passages from Thackeray and Lawrence 19. Two passages about belief: Foerster and Forster 20. Aphorisms by Franklin and Lawrence 21. Two modern passages on literary criticism 22. Two pieces of eighteenth-century literary criticism Notes Exercises Index.
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