Principles of Literary Criticism (Routledge Classics)

Preliminaries......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 The Chaos of Critical Theories......Page 12
2 The Phantom Aesthetic State......Page 18
3 The Language of Criticism......Page 25
4 Communication and the Artist......Page 31
5 The Critics' Concern with Value......Page 40
6 Value as an Ultimate Idea......Page 44
7 A Psychological Theory of Value......Page 50
8 Art and Morals......Page 63
9 Actual and Possible Misapprehensions......Page 68
10 Poetry for Poetry's Sake......Page 75
11 A Sketch for a Psychology......Page 84
12 Pleasure......Page 94
13 Emotion and the Coenesthesia......Page 100
14 Memory......Page 105
15 Attitudes......Page 109
16 The Analysis of a Poem......Page 115
17 Rhythm and Metre......Page 133
18 On Looking at a Picture......Page 145
19 Sculpture and the Construction of Form......Page 158
20 The Impasse of Musical Theory......Page 165
21 A Theory of Communication......Page 171
22 The Availability of the Poet's Experience......Page 176
23 Tolstoy's Infection Theory......Page 182
24 The Normality of the Artist......Page 187
25 Badness in Poetry......Page 196
26 Judgement and Divergent Readings......Page 203
27 Levels of Response and the Width of Appeal......Page 207
28 The Allusiveness of Modern Poetry......Page 211
29 Permanence as a Criterion......Page 217
30 The Definition of a Poem......Page 220
31 Art, Play, and Civilization......Page 225
32 The Imagination......Page 235
33 Truth and Revelation Theories......Page 248
34 The Two Uses of Language......Page 255
35 Poetry and Beliefs......Page 266
Appendix a: on value......Page 282
Appendix b: the poetry of t. s. eliot......Page 284
Index......Page 290