Best Critical Writing: Selections from Oscar Wilde, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Edgar Allan Poe, and Others (Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections) - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

 
9780486826752: Best Critical Writing: Selections from Oscar Wilde, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Edgar Allan Poe, and Others (Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486826759 ISBN 13: 9780486826752
Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In "The Critic as Artist," Oscar Wilde declares that the critic's artistic capabilities are as important as those of the artist. Wilde's passionate defense of the aesthetics of art criticism is among the wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays of this original collection, in which noted writers discuss the role of criticism in English and American literature.
Contents include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition," in which the author draws upon his most famous poem, "The Raven," to illustrate his theories on writing; Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry"; and commentaries on Shakespeare's plays by Samuel Johnson and Wordsworth's poetry by William Hazlitt. Walter Pater, whose work was highly influential on the writers of the Aesthetic Movement, is represented by an essay on style. Other selections include Mark Twain's satirical "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" and the "Preface to Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman. Brief introductory notes accompany each essay.

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Verlag
Dover Publications Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0486826759
ISBN 13 
9780486826752
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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