Selected essays in criticism

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Selected essays in criticism

L.C. Knights

Cambridge University Press, 1981

  • : hard
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references

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This is a selection of essays by one of the most distinguished of modern literary critics, L. C. Knights, published as a companion volume to the selection of Professor Knights' Shakespearean essays, which appeared in 1979. The essays span almost four decades of critical work on authors as diverse as Marlowe, George Herbert, Clarendon and Henry James. At the centre of each essay is an attempt to elicit some essential quality in the author, or authors, discussed. Although each can be read as an isolated critical essay, the different pieces are linked by a pervasive interest in the conditions, social or personal, out of which particular works emerged, and in the way in which major works of the imagination are renewed as they are re-interpreted in successive generations. Throughout, the underlying assumption is that literary criticism needs to be 'pure' - the result of direct exposure to particular works - but that it cannot remain purely literary, if only because the meaning of literature includes its effects on the lives and conduct of individual human beings.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. The strange case of Christopher Marlowe
  • 2. George Herbert
  • 3. All or nothing: a theme in John Donne
  • 4. Ben Jonson: public attitudes and social poetry
  • 5. The social background of metaphysical poetry
  • 6. Reflections on Clarendon's History of the Rebellion
  • 7. Restoration comedy: the reality and the myth
  • 8. Early Blake
  • 9. Two notes on Coleridge
  • 10. Idea and symbol: some hints from Coleridge
  • 11. Henry James and the trapped spectator
  • 12. Henry James and human liberty
  • 13. Poetry and 'things hard for thought'
  • 14. Literature and the teaching of literature.

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