Literary Criticism
Companionable Books
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Henry van Dyke
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, a playwright with a few bones to pick of his own, undertakes a surgical analysis of the social philosophies underlying …
Ein Vade mecum für den Hrn. Sam. Gotth. Lange Pastor in Laublingen
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Lessings Kritik an der Horazübersetzung des seinerzeit bekannten Pastors Lange ist unerbittlich und von fast brutaler Genauigkeit. Aus …
Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around…
Prejudices, First Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
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William Hazlitt
This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and p…
On the Sublime
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Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell, Translated Byherbert Lord Havell and Unknowntranslated By Herbert Lord Havell
This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…
The Welsh And Their Literature
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George Borrow
Originally an article in the US Edition of the London Quarterly Review, George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginni…
Greek Literature
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Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard
"The Greeks were the most intellectual people of the old world. … The study of Greek literature is therefore a proper element in a libe…
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre
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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was hig…
Essays on Paul Bourget
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Mark Twain
Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and &quo…
The Novels of Jane Austen
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George Henry Lewes
An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen a…
The Secret of Charlotte Brontë
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Frederika Richardson Macdonald
Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own resi…
Joseph Conrad
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Hugh Walpole
This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted Brit…
The Spirit of American Literature
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John Albert Macy
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …
English Literature
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Geraldine Hodgson
This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…
An Essay on Criticism (version 2)
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Alexander Pope
The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…
The Age of Elizabeth
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Mandell Creighton
This short history by the eminent British historian, Mandell Creighton, places Elizabeth and her reign within the context of 16th century Eu…
Madame de Staël
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Bella Duffy
Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Pa…
Six lectures on literature
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Charles Harold Herford
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…