MODERNISM, MYTH AND NEW CRITICISM READING LIST

MODERNISM

W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939):

• Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918)
• "Poetry and Tradition" (1907)
• "The Symbolism of Poetry" (1900)
• "William Blake and the Imagination" (1897)

Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945):

• "Poetry and Abstract Thought" (1939)

Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955):

• The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (1947)

T. E. Hulme (1883 - 1917):

• "Romanticism and Classicism" (1913-1914)

D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930):

• "Why the Novel Matters" (1925)

Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972):

• "A Retrospect" (1913)

T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965):

• "The Social Function of Poetry" (1943)
• "The Function of Criticism" (1923)
• "Ulysses, Order and Myth" (1923)
• "The Metaphysical Poets" (1921)
• "Hamlet and his Problems" (1919)
• "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919)

I. A. Richards (1893 - 1979):

• The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936)
• Practical Criticism: a Study of Literary Judgment (1929)
• Science and Poetry (1926)
• Principles of Literary Criticism (1924)
• The Meaning of Meaning: a Study of the Influence of Language on Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (1923)

F. R. Leavis (1895 - 1978):

• The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (1948)
• "Literary Criticism and Philosophy" (1937)
• Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry (1936)
• New Bearings in English Poetry: a Study of the Contemporary Situation (1932)

William Empson (1906 - 1984):

• Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)

MYTH CRITICISM

Northrop Frye (1912 - 1991):

• Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957)

• "The Archetypes of Literature" (1951)

NEW CRITICISM

John Crowe Ransom (1888 - 1974):

• "Criticism as Pure Speculation" (1941)

• "Criticism, Inc." (1938)

• "Poetry: a Note in Ontology" (1934)

Allen Tate (1899 - 1979):

• "Literature as Knowledge" (1941)

• "Tension in Poetry" (1938)

René Wellek (1903 - 1995):

• "The Concept of Realism in Literary Scholarship" (1960)

• "Literary Theory, Criticism, and History" (1960)

• "Concepts of Form and Structure in Twentieth Century Criticism" (1958)

• "The Concept of Evolution in Literary History" (1956)

• "Literary History" (1952)

• "The Concept of 'Romanticism' in Literary History" (1949)

• "The Revolt Against Positivism in Recent European Literary Scholarship" (1946)

• "Six Types of Literary History" (1946)

• Theory of Literature [by Wellek and Austin Warren] (1942):

  • "The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art."  142-157.

  • "Theory of Literary History."  252-269.

• "Periods and Movements in Literary History" (1941)

• "Literary Criticism and Philosophy" (1937)

Cleanth Brooks (1906 - 1994 ):

• "The Formalist Critic" (1951)

• "Irony as a Principle of Structure" (1949)

• The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947):

  • "The Heresy of Paraphrase." 

  • "The Language of Paradox." 

• Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939)

W. K. Wimsatt (1907 - 1975 ):

• "Explication as Criticism" (1952)

• "The Affective Fallacy" [by Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley] (1949)

• "History and Criticism: a Problematic Relationship" (1947)

• "The Intentional Fallacy" [by Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley] (1946)