Literary Criticism
Significant works in the study of literature
The following works of poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, and literary criticism elaborate on many of the thoughts shared by the Exiles in our Manifesto. Our small contribution is a poor primer compared to these exemplary readings. We highly recommend any and all of these texts for those who wish to learn more about the Western literary tradition and the nature of art, beauty, poesis, and criticism.
Works of Literary Criticism
- Introduction to Critical Theory Since Plato
- Il Convivio, Letter to Can Grande della Scala
- The Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine
- Poetics
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats & September 1, 1939
- Introduction to The Poet’s Tongue
- The Formalist Critics, Literary Criticism: Poet, Poem, and Reader & The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
- Understanding Drama
- Understanding Fiction & Understanding Poetry
- The Horse's Mouth
- Biographia Literaria, Shakespeare’s Judgment Equal to His Genius & The Stateman’s Manual
- The Fugitive Group: A Literary History, Imagination and Survival, Poetic Form and Formalism, The Southern Critics & The Terrain of Comedy
- The Epic Cosmos
- The Tragic Abyss
- The Prospect of Lyric
- The Canonization
- Four Quartets The Function of Criticism The Metaphysical Poets & Tradition and the Individual Talent
- Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature
- The Idea of a Theater & Introduction to Aristotle’s Poetics
- A Great Author Faces up to Death: An Interview with Joyce Cary
- For Once, Then, Something
- The House of Fiction
- On the Essence of the Work of Art
- Ars Poetica
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, Letter to George and Thomas Keats, Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, Letter to John Taylor & Letter to Richard Woodhouse (found in Selected Letters)
- Hurrahing in Harvest, Pied Beauty & The Windhover (found in The Major Works)
- An Experiment in Criticism
- On Sublimity
- Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination
- Art and Scholasticism & Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry
- Beauty in Nature and Art
- "Poetry" in The Poems of Marianne Moore
- The Claims of Politics
- Ion The Republic Phaedrus
- The Cathartic Principle, Criticism, Inc., Forms and Citizens, The Mimetic Principle & The New Criticism
- Practical Criticism: A Study Of Literary Judgment
- The Concept of Poetic Form in the Southern Critics, Interpreting Poetry: The Literary Habitus & The Contribution of Jacques Maritain: Poetic Intuition and Its Objectivization in the Organic Form of the Poem
- A Defence Of Poetry
- The Defence of Poesy
- Making of a Poem
- The Man of Letters in the Modern World Narcissus as Narcissus The Symbolic Imagination The Unliteral Imagination
- On Fairy Stories The Monsters and the Critics
- Pure and Impure Poetry
- A Curtain of Green
- The Beautiful Changes & Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
- The Critic as Artist Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Affective Fallacy The Intentional Fallacy
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Sailing to Byzantium & The Song of Wandering Aengus