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Collected essays in literary criticism,

by Read, Herbert,
Published by : Faber and Faber (London,) Physical details: 366 p. 23 cm.
Subject(s): Literature. | Criticism
Year: 1938
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"First published in October 1938."

Includes essays first published in the author's The sense of glory, 1929, Form in modern poetry, 1932, and In defense of Shelley. The remainder of the essays are either from his Reason and romanticism, 1926, or have not hitherto appeared in book form. cf. Acknowledgements.

General theories: The nature of poetry. The nature of criticism.--Particular studies; Froissart. Malory. Descartes. Swift. Vauvenargues. Tobias Smollett. Sterne. Hawthorne. Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Bagehot. Coventry Patmore. Gerard Manley Hopkins. Henry James.

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