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Overview
Marked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached from
biographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was the
dominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since that
time, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition to
the approach advocated by the New Critics. Nonetheless, the theory remains
one of the most important sources for groundbreaking criticism and continues
to be a controversial approach to reading literature.
Praising It New is the first anthology of New Criticism to be printed in fifty
years. It includes important essays by such influential poets and critics as
T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Yvor Winters,
Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, W. K. Wimsatt, and Robert Penn Warren.
Together, these authors ushered in the modernist age of poetry and criticism
and transformed the teaching of literature in the schools. As the American
poet and critic Randall Jarrell once noted: “I do not believe there has been another
age in which so much extraordinarily good criticism of poetry has
been written.”
This anthology now makes much of the best American poetry criticism available
again, and includes short biographies and selected bibliographies of its
chief figures. Praising It New is the perfect introduction for students to the
best American poetry criticism of the twentieth century.
biographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was the
dominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since that
time, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition to
the approach advocated by the New Critics. Nonetheless, the theory remains
one of the most important sources for groundbreaking criticism and continues
to be a controversial approach to reading literature.
Praising It New is the first anthology of New Criticism to be printed in fifty
years. It includes important essays by such influential poets and critics as
T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Yvor Winters,
Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, W. K. Wimsatt, and Robert Penn Warren.
Together, these authors ushered in the modernist age of poetry and criticism
and transformed the teaching of literature in the schools. As the American
poet and critic Randall Jarrell once noted: “I do not believe there has been another
age in which so much extraordinarily good criticism of poetry has
been written.”
This anthology now makes much of the best American poetry criticism available
again, and includes short biographies and selected bibliographies of its
chief figures. Praising It New is the perfect introduction for students to the
best American poetry criticism of the twentieth century.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780804011099 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
| Publication date: | 05/13/2008 |
| Edition description: | 1 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Sales rank: | 972,890 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Garrick Davis is the founding editor of the Contemporary
Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the world (cprw.com). His poetry
and criticism have appeared in the New Criterion,
Verse, the Weekly Standard,McSweeney’s, and the New
York Sun. He also edited Child of the Ocmulgee: the Selected
Poems of Freda Quenneville. He is the literature
specialist of the National Endowment for the Arts in
Washington DC.
Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the world (cprw.com). His poetry
and criticism have appeared in the New Criterion,
Verse, the Weekly Standard,McSweeney’s, and the New
York Sun. He also edited Child of the Ocmulgee: the Selected
Poems of Freda Quenneville. He is the literature
specialist of the National Endowment for the Arts in
Washington DC.
Table of Contents
Foreword William Logan
Forward into the Past: Reading the New Critics ix
Acknowledgments xvii
A Note on the Editor's Method of Selection xix
Introduction: The Golden Age of Poetry Criticism Garrick Davis xxi
Where to Begin? 1
The Ideal Approach to Criticism
Introduction to The Sacred Wood T. S. Eliot 3
The Perfect Critic T. S. Eliot 7
The New Syllabus
How to Read Ezra Pound 16
Against the Historical Method
Miss Emily and the Bibliographer Allen Tate 39
Teaching Literary Criticism
Criticism, Inc. John Crowe Ransom 49
Is Literary Criticism Possible? Allen Tate 61
The New Criticism 73
First Principles
Preliminary Problems Yvor Winters 75
The Formalist Critics Cleanth Brooks 84
Against the Fallacies
The Affective Fallacy W. K. Wimsatt Monroe C. Beardsley 92
The Intentional Fallacy W. K. Wimsatt Monroe C. Beardsley 102
The Purity of Poetry
Pure and Impure Poetry R. P. Warren 117
TheObjective Correlative
Hamlet and His Problems T. S. Eliot 138
The Dissociation of Sensibility
The Metaphysical Poets T. S. Eliot 143
The Isolation of Modern Poetry Delmore Schwartz 151
Close Reading
Texts from Housman Randall Jarrell 161
Some Post-Symbolist Structures Hugh Kenner 169
Techniques and Truths 183
Breaking the Pentameter
A Retrospect Ezra Pound 185
Reflections on Vers Libre T. S. Eliot 195
Making it New
Poets Without Laurels John Crowe Ransom 202
The End of the Line Randall Jarrell 213
The Problem of Form J. V. Cunningham 220
Poetry as a Moral Discipline
Foreword to Primitivism and Decadence Yvor Winters 224
The Morality of Poetry Yvor Winters 233
Appraising Poets and Periods 245
The Correction of Taste
T. S. Eliot: Thinker and Artist Cleanth Brooks 247
Religious Poetry in the United States R. P. Blackmur 260
Towards a Post-Kantian Verbal Music Kenneth Burke 272
Coda
Lord Tennyson's Scissors: 1912-1950 R. P. Blackmur 286
Selected Biographies and Bibliographies 303
Source Credits 331
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