Critical theory since Plato

"Critical Theory Since Plato is a chronologically arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism and theory in Western culture. Edited by two scholars in the field of literary study, this text puts an emphasis on the individual contributors to the development of literary criticism, from Plato and Aristotle to the present. Selections have been expanded to include a fuller representation of philosophical sources and influences, with a wide representation of current interests and trends. Selections reflecting the social, moral, and political influences on the development of the discipline of literary criticism and theory make this text appropriate for courses in Literary Criticism and Theory at any level." --

Plato. -- Aristotle. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) -- Strabo. -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus. -- Pseudo-Longinus. -- Plutarch. -- Flavius Philostratus. -- Plotinus. -- Saint Augustine. -- Anicus Manlius Severinus Boethius. -- Saint Thomas Aquinas. -- Dante Alighieri. -- Giovanni Boccaccio. -- Julius Caesar Scaliger. -- Lodovico Castelvetro. -- Sir Philip Sidney. -- Giordano Bruno. -- Giacopo Mazzoni. -- Torquato Tasso. -- Sir Francis Bacon. -- Pierre Corneille. -- John Dryden. -- John Locke. -- Alexander Pope. -- Joseph Addison. -- Giambattista Vico. -- David Hume. -- Edmund Burke. -- Edward Young. -- Samuel Johnson. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. -- Denis Diderot. -- Sir Joshua Reynolds. -- Immanuel Kant. -- Mary Wollstonecraft. -- William Blake. -- Friedrich Schiller. -- Friedrich Schlegel. -- William Wordsworth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. -- Wilhelm Von Humboldt. -- John Keats. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley. -- George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. -- Edgar Allan Poe. -- Matthew Arnold. -- Charles Baudelaire. -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. -- Walter Pater. -- Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. -- Charles Sanders Pei…