Literary Criticism
The Ordeal of Mark Twain (Version 2)
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Van Wyck Brooks
The Ordeal of Mark Twain analyzes the literary progression of Samuel L. Clemens and attributes shortcomings to Clemens' mother and wife. The…
Life and Writings of Addison
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, wi…
Essays on Modern Novelists
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William Lyon Phelps
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote i…
The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation
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Francis Bickford Hornbrooke
Francis Bickford Hornbrooke was an American Unitarian minister who in later years was recognized as an expert commentator on literature, in …
Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
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T. S. Eliot
Best known as a poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot also wrote many works of literary criticism. In this volume he gives us thr…
Milton
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England und…
Henry James At Work
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Theodora Bosanquet
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
Gossip in a Library
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Edmund Gosse
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…
Some American Storytellers
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Frederic Taber Cooper
Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the tur…
The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance
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Various
In the preliminary statement of the aims and objects of this History, communicated to those who were invited to become contributors to it, t…
Collected Prose
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James Elroy Flecker
Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic p…
The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha
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C. F. Tucker Brooke
"The ambition of the editor has been to provide an accurate and complete text, with adequate critical and supplementary matter, of all …
Aspects of the Novel
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E. M. Forster
This s a series of lectures given at Trinity College by the acclaimed author E.M. Forster (A Passage to India, Howard's End, A Room With a V…
Essays Irish and American
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John Butler Yeats
From the noted artist and father of the celebrated Irish poet William Butler Yeats comes this short collection of essays on the literary lif…
'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)
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Various
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …
Studies in Classic American Literature
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D. H. Lawrence
The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpala…
Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística
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Julio Cejador y Frauca and Julio Cejador Y Frauca
Publicada en 1907 y dedicada a su “querido discípulo” Ortega y Gasset, esta colección de ensayos consiste en “articulejos” pub…
Through the Literature / Сквозь литературу
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Boris Eikhenbaum
Collection of literary studies and articles about writers and their styles by a prominent Russian literary scholar and historian of literatu…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
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John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
The Defense of Poesy
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …