Preface
Critics of Ancient Greece and Rome
1.Plato
From Republic, Book X
2.Aristotle
The Politics
3.Horace
The Art of Poetry
4.Longinus
On the Sublime
British Critics of the 16th -- 19th
5.Sir Philip Sidney
An Apology for Poetry
6.John Dryden
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
7.Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism
8.Samuel Johnson
Preface to Shakespeare
9.William Wordsworth
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
10.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Biographia Literaria
11.Matthew Arnold
The Function of Critism at the Present Time
19th Century American Critics
12.Edgar Allan Poe
The Poetic Principle
13.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Poet
14.Walt Whitman
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass
15.William Dean Howells
From Criticism Fiction
16.Henry James
The Art of Fiction
Glossary of Critical Terms
