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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