Literary Criticism from the Dead

This page presents a series of analyses/summaries of critical positions from Plato to Postmodernism. Let the reader beware.

Ancients	Medievals	Renaissance	Restoration
Plato Aristotle Horace Longinus Language in Hinduism Plotinus Boethius	Saint Thomas Aquinas Giovanni Boccaccio	Sir Phillip Sidney Pierre Corneille	John Dryden Alexander Pope Giambattista Vico
Eighteenth Century	Nineteenth Century	Twentieth Century: Modernism	Twentieth Century: Post-Modernism
Samuel Johnson Immanuel Kant Friedrich Von Schiller	William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Arthur Schopenhauer P.B. Shelley J.S. Mill Matthew Arnold	T.E. Hulme Charles Sanders Peirce Ferdinand De Saussure Edmund Husserl John Crowe Ransom Kenneth Burke Wimsatt and Beardsley Northrop Frye	Roland Barthes Claude Levi-Strauss Jacques Derrida Paul De Man Geoffrey H. Hartman

Ancients