Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader

action admiration Aeschylus appear Aristotle artist audience beautiful called causes century character Comedy composition Cowley criticism culture Dante Alighieri degree delight diction distinction divine dramatic Dryden effect emotion English Epic poetry Euripides excellence excite existence expression feelings genius give Glaucon Hamlet heaven Hesiod Homer human idea Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden judge judgment kind knowledge language less literary literature lyric Lyrical Ballads manner means metaphors metre Milton mind mode moral nature never object Odysseus Oedipus Paradise Lost passage passions perfect perhaps persons philosophical pity Plato play pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic Polygnotus praise principle produced propriety prose reader reason rhapsode rhyme scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Socrates Sophocles soul speak spirit style T. S. Eliot theory things thought tion Tragedy true truth verse virtue whole words Wordsworth writing