MA ENGLISH YEAR 2 SEMESTER 1

PAPER I OVERALL(O/A) SEMESTER 3 - LITERARY CRITICISM

Contents

1. Introduction to Literary Criticism

2. Aristotle Poetics

3. Samuel Johnson (a) Selection from Milton

(b) Selection form Cowley

4. William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria (Chapters 16 and 17)

6. Mathew Arnold (a) The Study of Poetry

(b) The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

7. Thomas Stearns Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent

Core Text

1. Aristotle Poetics (Aristotle’s the Art of Poetry edited by

Fyfe)

2. A Quintessence of Literary Criticism (NUML)

Reference Book

Abrams, M. H The Mirror and the Lamp

Daiches, David Critical Approaches to Literature
Hassan, Riaz Practical Criticism and some Aspects of Aristotle’s
Poetics
Hough, G An Essay in Criticism
Jones, Joh On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy
Richards, I. A Principles of Literary Criticism
Warren, R.P Literary Criticism: A Short History
Wellek, Rene History of modern Criticism
Warren, Austin Theory of Criticism