The erotic motive in literature This work is an endeavour to apply some of the methods of psychoanalysis to literature. It attempts to read closely between the lines of an author's works. It applies some principles in interpreting literature wit…
Dante and other waning classics I have chosen for critical examination six of the most famous classics of Christendom. These include two highly lauded epic poems of modem times, the Divine Comedy and ‘Paradise Lost; two works the circulation of each…
The modern novel Study of the purpose and the meaning of fiction This book is an attempt to trace the development of some important principles of fictional criticism during the two centuries of the novel in English and to show how the development …
Famous reviews Excerpt from the book preface: Although regular literary organs, and the critical columns of the press, are both of comparatively recent origin, we find that almost from the beginning our journalists aspired to be critics as well as n…
Essays by Leigh Hunt In studying the prose of Leigh Huntt, we make the acquaintance of what may be regarded as an intermediate territory between the older and the newer styles of essay-writing. His youthful productions had a smack of the eighteenth…
The birth of tragedy, or Hellenism and pessimism The birth of Tragedy 'The Birth of Tragedy presented a view of the Greeks so alien to the spirit of the time and to the ideals of its scholarship that it blighted Nietzsche's entire academic c…
The critical game Contents: The critical game.--Dante in English.--Dante's political philosophy.--Nietzsche.--Tolstoy.--Maeterlinck's essays.--Joseph Conrad.--A Conrad miscellany.--Strindberg.--Tagore.--Remy de Gourmont.--Swift's relat…
The Bataille Reader by Georges Bataille The idea of editing a Bataille Reader in 320 pages might sound unthinkable to any French scholars of Bataille. A similar collection has never appeared in France. The reason for such absence might be due to …
Critical Essays Critical Essays - by George Orwell Most of these essays have appeared in print before, and several of them more than once. " Charles Dickens " and " Boys' Weeklies " appeared in my book, Inside the Whale. &quo…
How to read English literature Excerpt If a generalization may be permitted at this point a conclusion summarizing these data might be stated as the substitution of ' why ? ' for ' what ? ' in the attitude of art to nature. As was s…
A history of French literature French prose and French poetry had interested me for so many years that when Mr Gosse invited me to write this book I knew that I was qualified in one particular the love of my subject. Qualified in the knowledge I was…
Essays in little The following essays, five are new and were written for this volume. They are the paper on Mr R. L. Stevenson, the " Letter to a Young Journalist," the study of Mr Kipling, the note on Homer, and "The Last Fashionable…
Plato: and his dialogues Plato: and his dialogues Tue chapters that follow were originally delivered Object of as broadcast talks. I have extended the quotations from Plato but otherwise have reprinted the talks substantially as they were spoken. F…
Harvard essays on classical subjects Contents: The new criticism of Roman art, by G. H. Chase.--Notions of humanity among the Greeks, by C. B. Gulick.--An ancient letter writer--Alciphron, by C. N. Jackson.--Greek and Roman ascetic tendencies, by …
