The Literary Critics

A Study Of English Descriptive Criticism

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A history of literary criticism from Dryden to T.S. Eliot and Iris Murdoch, that shows by what stages the art of analyzing literary works has evolved from the early experiments of the seventeenth century into the techniques of the twentieth. The author had previously been editor of The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 242, 14 pages. stiff paper wrappers. large 12mo..