دانلود کتاب A short history of literary criticism

So many literary critics have practiced their trade that a
complete history of literary criticism would either have to be
impossibly long or would have to squeeze in so many names and
dates as to be practically unreadable. This modest work, then,
contents itself with offering a chart of the shifting currents of
literary opinion. For clarity and brevity, the discussion of the
individual critic is limited to one or two of his most important
essays. Since, ideally, this commentary should be read in con-
junction with the actual works of the critics themselves, an at-
tempt has been made to limit, where possible, the observations
to those essays most easily found in the standard anthologies.

Selective as such a little book as this must be, it will, the
author hopes, serve as a useful and pleasant introduction to
what Milton called the "sublime art".