BLOCK 6: LITERARY CRITICISM

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Section 1: GREEK LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Socrates

2. Plato

3. Aristotle

Section 2: ROMAN LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Horace

2. Longinus

3. Quintilian

Section 3: RENAISSANCE LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Stephen Gosson

2. Philip Sidney

3. George Puttenham (1529-1590)

Section 4: ENLIGHTENMENT LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)


2. John Dryden (1631-1700)


3. John Locke (1632-1704)


4. Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)


5. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)


6. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)


7. Adam Smith (1720-1790)


8. Edmund Burke (1729-1797)


9. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)


Section 5: ROMANTIC LITERARY CRITICISM

1. William Wordsworth

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. John Keats

Section 6: VICTORIAN LITERARY CRITICISM

1. George Eliot (1819-1880)

2. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

3. Henry James (1843-1916)

4. G.M. Hopkins (1844-1889)

5. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Section 7: MODERN LITERARY CRITICISM

1. T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

2. F.R. Leavis (1895-1978)

3. Harold Bloom (1930-2019)