Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Preface vii
5. Polemical Introduction 1
6. 1. Greeks and Romans 10
7. 2. Medieval Criticism 65
8. 3. English Renaissance Criticism 111
9. 4. English Enlightenment and Early Romantic Criticism 156
10. 5. English Romantic, Moral and Aesthetic Criticism 207
11. 6. Institutionalising English Criticism: Men of Letters, Modernism, Tradition and Theory 257
12. Bibliography 316
13. Index 335