Criticism: Major Statements Book

	Preface	iii
	The Republic: Book X	1
	From The Ion	15
	The Poetics	18
	On the Sublime	47
	Epistle to the Pisones (The Art of Poetry)	84
	From the Letter to Can Grande della Scalla	96
	An Apology for Poetry	101
	An Essay of Dramatic Poesy	136
	An Essay on Criticism	182
	Preface to Shakespeare	200
	From Critique of Judgment	232
	Preface to Lyrical Ballads	240
	From Biographia Literaria	257
	Four Letters	279
	A Defence of Poetry	287
	From The German Ideology	310
	From The Birth of Tragedy	319
	The Study of Poetry	333
	From Studies in the History of the Renaissance	354
	The Art of Fiction	358
	From The Critic as Artist	374
	What Is Art?	382
	The Theme of the Three Caskets	394
	Tradition and the Individual Talent	404
	Shakespeare's Sister From A Room of One's Own	411
	Heteroglossia in the Novel From Discourse in the Novel	422
	Criticism as Pure Speculation	448
	Keats's Sylvan Historian: History without Footnotes From The Well Wrought Urn	465
	The Archetypes of Literature	475
	The Structuralist Activity	487
	Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences	493
	When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision	511
	From Marxism and Literary Criticism	525
	What Is an Author?	544
	Semiology and Rhetoric	559
	Is There a Text in This Class?	573
	Melodramas of Beset Manhood	586
	The Deconstruction of the Linguistic Sign From Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language	603
	Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Reponsibilities of Feminist Criticism	615
	Shakespeare and the Exorcists	630
	A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden From A World of Difference	654
	The Case of Poe	662
	Tradition and the Female Talent: Modernism and Masculinism From No Man's Land	683
	The Trope of the Talking Book From The Signifying Monkey	696
	From Epistemology of the Closet	744
	From Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology	751
	The Postcolonial and the Postmodern: The Question of Agency From Locations of Culture	763
	Further Reading	783
	Index	810