American Literary Criticism in the Nineteenth Century - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Asselineau, Roger M. “A Poet's Dilemma: Walt Whitman's Attitude to Literary History and Literary Criticism.” In Literary History and Literary Criticism, edited by Leon Edel, pp. 50-61. New York: New York University Press, 1965.

Discusses the influence of Taine's History of English Literature on the development of Walt Whitman's critical thought.

Eliot, T. S. “Imperfect Critics.” In The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, pp. 17-46. London: Methuen, 1920.

Contains a brief section on the American critics Paul More and Irving Babbitt.

Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, 315 p.

A history of American literary studies in colleges and universities from the late nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on the ongoing debate between scholars and literary...

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