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The definition of literature and other essays

The overall aim of the volume is to take conversation about prose and poetry out of the limited and specialized literary or academic worlds in which it so often takes place and open it up to a broader world of reflective people, whoever and wherever they happen to be.
Print Book, English, 1984
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 267 p. ; 23 cm.
9780521318471, 9780521244954, 0521318475, 0521244951
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Preface; Bibliographical note; 1. The definition of literature; 2. On liberty of interpreting; 3. Evaluative criticism, and criticism without evaluation; 4. The novel: a critical impasse?; 5. The sea cook: a study in the art of Robert Louis Stevenson; 6. On Kidnapped; 7. On The Wind in the Willows; 8. The present value of Tennyson; 9. Robert Frost; 10. Hopkins and literary criticism; 11. T. S. Eliot: a poet's notebook; 12. I. A. Richards; 13. Yvor Winters: counter-romantic.