Criticism titles at manybooks.net http://manybooks.net/ New Criticism additions to the manybooks.net library. Thousands of free books, pre-formatted for reading on your PDA - eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, or zTXT eBooks for your Palm, Pocket PC, Zaurus or Rocketbook! en-us webmaster@manybooks.net Mon, 20 May 13 09:01:09 -0600 <![CDATA[Castilho e Quental: Reflexões sobre a actual questão litteraria]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/diasa3438634386-8.html Author: Augusto Malheiro Dias

Language: Portugues

Published: 1866

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/diasa3438634386-8.html <![CDATA[Ephemera Critica]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/collinsjc3437034370.html or plain truths about current literature

Author: John Churton Collins

Language: English

Published: 1902

It is time for some one to speak out. When we compare the condition and prospects of Science in all its branches, its organization, its standards, its aims, its representatives with those of Literature, how deplorable and how humiliating is the contrast! In the one we see an ordered realm, in the other mere chaos. The one, serious, strenuous, progressive, is displaying an energy as wonderful in what it has accomplished as in what it promises to accomplish; the other, without soul, without conscience, without nerve, aimless, listless and decadent, appears to be stagnating, almost entirely, into the monopoly of those who are bent on futilizing and degrading it.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/collinsjc3437034370.html <![CDATA[Dante. An essay.]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/churchr3389633896-8.html To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.

Author: R.W. Church

Language: English

Published: 1879

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/churchr3389633896-8.html <![CDATA[Beowulf]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/chambersrw3411734117-8.html An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

Author: R.W. Chambers

Language: English

Published: 1921

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/chambersrw3411734117-8.html <![CDATA[The Home Life of Poe]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/weisss3393033930-8.html

Author: Susan Archer Weiss

Language: English

Published: 1907

It is always tempting to peep behind the scenes of a poet's workshop. Such a peep is afforded us in recollections of Poe by Mrs. Susan Archer Weiss, one of the few surviving friends of the author of what is regarded by many as the greatest American poem. To his biographer, it is true, Poe is not clothed in a mantle of mystery and romance; she has seen him in his frolicsome moods; she has also seen him in the sordid embarrassments of poverty and of drink. It takes a poet's eye and intellectual subtlety"To trace under the common thing the hidden grace,"and the lady whose chief distinction it is to have been on intimate terms with Poe is neither poetic nor subtle. She tells us that Poe's child-bride, the lovely Virginia Clemm, was not the delicate creature we have fancied, but a plump little girl, with the undeveloped mind of a child who had never read half his poems. And "The Raven," perhaps the New World's most celebrated single contribution to literature, is marred in her mind by imperfections because its author, in a hypercritical moment, revealed its "knotty points" to her and asked her advice in the matter.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/weisss3393033930-8.html <![CDATA[The Life-Work of Flaubert]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/merezhkovskyd3393333933-8.html From the Russian of Merejowski

Author: Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/merezhkovskyd3393333933-8.html <![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/masons3368933689.html A Defence of ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''

Author: Stuart Mason

Language: English

Published: 1908

What the public calls an unhealthy novel is always a beautiful and healthy work of art.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/masons3368933689.html <![CDATA[Pamela Censured]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/anonymous3373533735-8.html

Author: Anonymous

Language: English

Published: 1741

While we now feel certain that Henry Fielding wrote Shamela, the author of Pamela Censured has eluded us. Though both works attack Pamela on moral grounds and incidentally make unflattering comments about Colley Cibber, their literary methods differ so greatly that it is impossible to tell whether or not Shamela influenced Pamela Censured to any extent.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/anonymous3373533735-8.html <![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/masons3368933689-8.html A Defence of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

Author: Stuart Mason

Language: English

Published: 1908

On the whole, an artist in England gains something by being attacked. His individuality is intensified. He becomes more completely himself. Of course, the attacks are very gross, very impertinent, and very contemptible. But then no artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/masons3368933689-8.html <![CDATA[The Welsh and Their Literature]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/borrowge3333633336.html from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition

Author: George Borrow

Language: English

Published: 1861

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/borrowge3333633336.html <![CDATA[Flaubert und die Herkunft des modernen Romans]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/mannhein3332833328-8.html Author: Heinrich Mann

Language: German

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/mannhein3332833328-8.html <![CDATA[Custom and Myth]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/langandr3326033260-8.html New Edition

Author: Andrew Lang

Language: English

Published: 1893

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/langandr3326033260-8.html <![CDATA[Nervosos, Lymphaticos e Sanguineos]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/pimentela3323833238-8.html Author: Alberto Augusto de Almeida Pimentel

Language: Portugues

Published: 1872

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/pimentela3323833238-8.html <![CDATA[Young's Night Thoughts]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/younge3315633156-8.html With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

Author: Edward Young

Language: English

Published: 1853

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/younge3315633156-8.html <![CDATA[A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/cibberc3308033080-8.html

Author: Colley Cibber

Language: English

Published: 1742

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/cibberc3308033080-8.html <![CDATA[Stevenson's Perfect Virtues]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/brewerl3307233072-8.html As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt

Author: Luther Albertus Brewer

Language: English

Published: 1922

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/brewerl3307233072-8.html <![CDATA[Interpreters]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/vanvechtenc3297932979-8.html

Author: Carl Van Vechten

Language: English

Published: 1917

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/vanvechtenc3297932979-8.html <![CDATA[Guelfos e Gibelinos]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/vidale3287032870-8.html Tentativa critica sobre a actual polemica litteraria

Author: Eduardo Augusto Vidal

Language: Portugues

Published: 1866

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/vidale3287032870-8.html <![CDATA[The Future of English Poetry]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/gosseedm3247732477-8.html Author: Edmund Gosse

Language: English

Published: 1913

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/gosseedm3247732477-8.html <![CDATA[Belcaro]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/leeverno3233732337-8.html Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions

Author: Vernon Lee

Language: English

Published: 1887

"Vernon Lee writes well about poetry, better upon painting and sculpture, and best upon music. The essay on 'Cherubino' is the finest in the book, and is a perfect gem in its way."--St. James's Gazette

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/leeverno3233732337-8.html <![CDATA[Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/rocchiettij3177731777-8.html

Author: Joseph Rocchietti

Language: English

Published: 1845

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/rocchiettij3177731777-8.html <![CDATA[Histoire littéraire d'Italie]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/ginguenep3172031720-8.html Tome troisième

Author: Pierre-Louis Ginguené

Language: French

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/ginguenep3172031720-8.html <![CDATA[Modern Painters, Volume IV]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/ruskinjo3162331623-8.html Of Mountain Beauty

Author: John Ruskin

Language: English

Published: 1873

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/ruskinjo3162331623-8.html <![CDATA[El Superhombre]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/valeraj3161331613-8.html

y otras novedades

Author: Juan Valera

Language: Spanish

Published: 1903

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/valeraj3161331613-8.html <![CDATA[Contemporary Russian Novelists]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/perskys3150331503-8.html

Author: Serge Persky

Language: English

Published: 1912

The principal aim of this book is to give the reader a good general knowledge of Russian literature as it is to-day. The author, Serge Persky, has subordinated purely critical material, because he wants his readers to form their own judgments and criticize for themselves. The element of literary criticism is not, however, by any means entirely lacking.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/perskys3150331503-8.html <![CDATA[English Critical Essays]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jonesed3128331283-8.html Nineteenth Century

Author: Edmund David Jones

Language: English

Published: 1916

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jonesed3128331283-8.html <![CDATA[Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754)]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/anonymous3124231242-8.html Author: Anonymous

Language: English

Published: 1754

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/anonymous3124231242-8.html <![CDATA[Hazlitt on English Literature]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/zeitlinj3113231132-8.html An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature

Author: Jacob Zeitlin

Language: English

Published: 1913

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/zeitlinj3113231132-8.html <![CDATA[Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/disraelii3107831078-8.html Author: Isaac Disraeli

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/disraelii3107831078-8.html <![CDATA[Walt Whitman]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/leglerh3102731027-8.html Yesterday and Today

Author: Henry Eduard Legler

Language: English

Published: 1916

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