1. Introduction: From Greco-Roman Cultural
Legacy to modern literary criticism
[Three fountain-heads of western
literatures: The biblical tradition, the Platonic tradition, and
the Aristotelian tradition]
2. Transcendalism: Plato
[Plato's Home Page]
[Read Plato]
[Plato
and Delphi]
3. Trancendental Realist: Aristotle, Poetics
[Aristotle's Home Page]
[Plato: An
Intoduction]
[Aristotle's
Works in Gopher]
4. The Aristotelian Tradition: Horace,
Ars Poetica
5. Rhetoric: Longinus, On the Sublime
[Edmund Burke, "Of
the Sublime and the Beautiful; Kant's "Analytic of the Beautiful and
the Sublime"; J-F Lyotard,
Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime]
6. Medieval Theology and Theory of Sign:
St. Augustine and Boethius [Medieval
Literature on Line]
[Boethius's
Home Page] [The
Consolation of Philosophy]
[Boethius's
E-texts]
7. St. Augustine: The Confessions and
City of God
[St.
Augustine's Home Page]
[St.
Augustine: Net Sources]
8. Renaissance: The Bible and Literature:
Sir Philip Sidney, "An Apology for Poetry"
[Reformation and Translations
of the Bible; Bible as Literature]
9. Baroque/Rococo/Neoclassicism: Corneille,
Dryden, Boileau, Alexander Pope
10. Romanticism: On Memory and
Imagination
[Romanticism
and Pantheism] [Romantic
Links] [Romanticism
on the Net]
11. William Blake
12. William Wordsworth
[Wordsworth
Trust]
13. Percy Shelley
14. John Keats
15. American Trancendentalism: The American Renaissance
16. Romanticism and Modernism
17. T. S. Eliot
[T.S.
Eliot Home Page] [The
Love Song of A.J. Prufrock] [The
Waste Land]
[The
T.S. Eliot Page]
18. Modern Literary Criticism: To be continued
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