Literary Criticism: An Overview

This book, Literary Criticism: An Overview provides a detailed description of the various literary phases of the English Literature. The first part of the book deals with the critics from the Ancient Greeks to the Age of the Romantics, while the second part is from the Victorian period to the contemporary criticism. The book begins with an introduction of literary criticism and moves forward towards the main critics of different eras. It intends to be some sort of historical survey of the history of literary criticism which presents some important literary periods, figures and critics.In addition, the book tackles some important critical schools and theories. It introduces an overview of main critics and their important theories of Drama and poetry. The book includes short extracts of the critical works written by the main critical figures of the different periods with some analysis of these works to simplify ideas and critical points of view to readers. However, the book is intended to use some guidelines from biographical sites and important articles written by well-known critics and historians to show different points of view and to allow some sort of debates.