17th century France
18th Century Critics
18th century editors and essayists
18th Century Readers
19th century romanticism
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Author_J. W. H. Atkins
Beattie's Essay
Beattie’s Essay
Blank Verse
Bouhours
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Common Language
Cowley's Pindarics
Cowley’s Pindarics
critical works after 1674
Drama
Dryden
Dryden's theories
Elizabethan dramatists
Elizabethan literatures
English literary criticism
Enlightenment literature
Epic poem
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Flecknoe
Hebrew Poetry
Heinsius
Heroic Plays
historical development of English criticism
Howard
Knights Errant
Le Bon
Le Bossu
literary appreciation
Lope De Vega
Maurice Morgann
Medieval psychology
Moliere
Neo-classical Rules
Neo-classical School
Neo-classical System
neo-classical theory
Neo-classicism
Neoclassical System
Paradise Lost
Perrault
poetic criticism
Poetry
Prose
Rapin
Shadwell
Shakespeare Criticism
Shakespeare studies
Shakespeare's Art
Shakespeare's Characterization
Shakespeare's Dramatic Art
Shakespeare’s Art
Shakespeare’s Characterization
Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art
Theatrum Poetarum
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367763503
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1951, this volume covers the transition period between the years of Renaissance influence and the dawn of 19th Century Romanticism. The book analyses the theories and judgments of various critics and their bearing on literary appreciation. The opening chapter concentrates on the account of French doctrines of the 17th Century which is essential as the necessary background of English critical activities for the best part of two centuries. Later chapters discuss the main lines of the development and the more significant critics.
J. W. H. Atkins was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Aberystwyth
