literary criticism

Virginia Woolf came next, with her dazzling, sensuous essays and literary criticism.

Did you originally set out to write a blend of memoir and literary criticism?

Literary criticism is unlikely to change the world, but every now and then it throws up a work of real intellectual stature.

But I read the book and the surrounding literary criticism so I could understand the dynamics of men giving orders to women.

If, as W.H. Auden said, poetry makes nothing happen, where on earth does that leave literary criticism?

Such a fact can no more be reached by literary criticism, than can the popularity of Tupper's poetry.

There is, perhaps, a reason for this, which may be accounted for under the canons of literary criticism.

Aristotle wrote two treatises on literary criticism: the Rhetoric and the Poetics.

Implicit in Aristotle and throughout classical literary criticism there is a clear-cut distinction between poetic and rhetoric.

Literary criticism, armaments, tariffs, manners—there was no end to it.