Editing Literary criticism (section)

==Key texts==
{{See|Critical theory|Feminist literary criticism|List of American literary critics}}

===Classical and medieval periods===
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*[[Plato]]: ''Ion'', ''Republic'', ''Cratylus''
*[[Aristotle]]: ''Poetics'', ''Rhetoric''
*[[Horace]]: ''Art of Poetry''
*[[Longinus (literature)|Longinus]]: ''On the Sublime''
*[[Plotinus]]: ''On the Intellectual Beauties''
*[[St. Augustine]]: ''On Christian Doctrine''
*[[Boethius]]: ''The Consolation of Philosophy''
*[[Aquinas]]: ''The Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine''
*[[Dante]]: ''The Banquet'', ''Letter to Cangrande Della Scala''
*[[Boccaccio]]: ''Life of Dante'', ''Genealogy of the Gentile Gods''
*[[Christine de Pizan]]: ''The Book of the City of Ladies''
*[[Bharata Muni]]: ''Natya Shastra''
*[[Rajashekhara (Sanskrit poet)|Rajashekhara]]: ''Inquiry into Literature''
*[[Valmiki]]: ''The Invention of Poetry'' (from the ''[[Ramayana]]'')
*[[Anandavardhana]]: ''Light on Suggestion''
*[[Cao Pi]]: ''A Discourse on Literature''
*[[Lu Ji (Shiheng)|Lu Ji]]: ''[[Wen fu|Rhymeprose on Literature]]''
*[[Liu Xie]]: ''[[The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons|The Literary Mind]]''
*[[Wang Changling]]: ''A Discussion of Literature and Meaning''
*Sikong Tu: ''The Twenty-Four Classes of Poetry''
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===Renaissance period===
*[[Lodovico Castelvetro]]: ''The ''Poetics'' of Aristotle Translated and Explained''
*[[Philip Sidney]]: ''An Apology for Poetry''
*[[Jacopo Mazzoni]]: ''On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante''
*[[Torquato Tasso]]: ''Discourses on the Heroic Poem''
*[[Francis Bacon]]: ''The Advancement of Learning''
*[[Henry Reynolds (poet)|Henry Reynolds]]: ''Mythomystes''
*John Mandaville: ''Composed in the mid-14th century{{snd}}most probably by a french physician''

===Enlightenment period===
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*[[Thomas Hobbes]]: ''Answer to Davenant's preface to ''Gondibert
*[[Pierre Corneille]]: ''Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place''
*[[John Dryden]]: ''An Essay of Dramatic Poesy''
*[[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]]: ''The Art of Poetry''
*[[John Locke]]: ''An Essay Concerning Human Understanding''
*[[John Dennis (dramatist)|John Dennis]]: ''The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry''
*[[Alexander Pope]]: ''An Essay on Criticism''
*[[Joseph Addison]]: ''On the Pleasures of the Imagination'' (''Spectator'' essays)
*[[Giambattista Vico]]: ''The New Science''
*[[Edmund Burke]]: ''A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful''
*[[David Hume]]: ''Of the Standard of Taste''
*[[Samuel Johnson]]: ''On Fiction'', ''Rasselas'', ''Preface to ''Shakespeare
*[[Edward Young]]: ''Conjectures on Original Composition''
*[[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]]: ''Laocoön''
*[[Joshua Reynolds]]: ''Discourses on Art''
*[[Richard Sharp (politician)|Richard "Conversation" Sharp]] [https://archive.org/stream/lettersandessay01shargoog Letters & Essays in Prose & Verse]
* James Usher :''Clio: or a Discourse on Taste (1767)''<ref name="google">{{cite book |title=Clio Or, a Discourse on Taste: Addressed to a Young Lady |last=Ussher |first=J. |date=1767 |publisher=Davies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYFKAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3 |page=3 |accessdate=10 October 2014}}</ref>
*[[Denis Diderot]]: ''The Paradox of Acting''
*[[Immanuel Kant]]: ''[[Critique of Judgment]]''
*[[Mary Wollstonecraft]]: ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]''
*[[William Blake]]: ''The Marriage of Heaven or Hell'', ''Letter to Thomas Butts'', ''Annotations to Reynolds' Discourses'', ''A Descriptive Catalogue'', ''A Vision of the Last Judgment'', ''On Homer's Poetry''
*[[Friedrich Schiller]]: ''Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man''
*[[Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel|Friedrich Schlegel]]: ''Critical Fragments'', ''Athenaeum Fragments'', ''On Incomprehensibility''
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===19th century===
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*[[John Neal]]: ''[[American Writers]]''<ref>{{cite book | last = Davis | first = Theo | title = Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = New York, New York | year = 2007 | isbn = 9781139466561 | page = 69}}</ref>
*[[William Wordsworth]]: ''Preface to the Second Edition of ''Lyrical Ballads
*[[Germaine de Staël|Anne Louise Germaine de Staël]]: ''Literature in its Relation to Social Institutions''
*[[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling]]: ''On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature''
*[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]: ''Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius'', ''On the Principles of Genial Criticism'', ''The Statesman's Manual'', ''Biographia Literaria''
*[[Wilhelm von Humboldt]]: ''Collected Works''
*[[John Keats]]: letters to Benjamin Bailey, George & Thomas Keats, John Taylor, and Richard Woodhouse
*[[Arthur Schopenhauer]]: ''The World as Will and Idea''
*[[Thomas Love Peacock]]: ''[[The Four Ages of Poetry]]''
*[[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]: ''[[A Defence of Poetry]]''
*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]: ''Conversations with Eckermann'', ''Maxim No. 279''
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]: ''The Philosophy of Fine Art''
*[[Giacomo Leopardi]]: ''Zibaldone'' (notebooks)
*[[Francesco de Sanctis]]: ''Critical Essays; History of the Italian Literature''
*[[Thomas Carlyle]]: ''Symbols''
*[[John Stuart Mill]]: ''What is Poetry?''
*[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]: ''The Poet''
*[[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve]]: ''What Is a Classic?''
*[[James Russell Lowell]]: ''[[A Fable for Critics]]''
*[[Edgar Allan Poe]]: ''[[The Poetic Principle]]''
*[[Matthew Arnold]]: ''Preface to the 1853 Edition of ''Poems, ''The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'', ''The Study of Poetry''
*[[Hippolyte Taine]]: ''History of English Literature and Language''
*[[Charles Baudelaire]]: ''The Salon of 1859''
*[[Karl Marx]]: ''[[The German Ideology]]'', ''[[Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy]]''
*[[Søren Kierkegaard]]: ''Two Ages: A Literary Review'', ''The Concept of Irony''
*[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]: ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]] from the Spirit of Music'', ''Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense''
*[[Walter Pater]]: ''Studies in the History of the Renaissance''
*[[Émile Zola]]: ''The Experimental Novel''
*[[Anatole France]]: ''The Adventures of the Soul''
*[[Oscar Wilde]]: ''[[The Decay of Lying]]''
*[[Stéphane Mallarmé]]: ''The Evolution of Literature'', ''The Book: A Spiritual Mystery'', ''Mystery in Literature''
*[[Leo Tolstoy]]: ''[[What is Art?]]''
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===20th century===
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*[[Benedetto Croce]]: ''Aesthetic''
* [[Antonio Gramsci]] : ''Prison Notebooks''
* [[Umberto Eco]]: ''The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas; The Open Work''
*[[A. C. Bradley]]: ''Poetry for Poetry's Sake''
*[[Sigmund Freud]]: ''Creative Writers and Daydreaming''
*[[Ferdinand de Saussure]]: ''Course in General Linguistics''
*[[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]: ''The Structural Study of Myth''
*[[T. E. Hulme]]: ''Romanticism and Classicism''; ''[[Bergson]]'s Theory of Art''
*[[Walter Benjamin]]: ''On Language as Such and On the Language of Man''
*[[Viktor Shklovsky]]: ''Art as Technique''
*[[T. S. Eliot]]: ''Tradition and the Individual Talent''; ''Hamlet and His Problems''
*[[Irving Babbitt]]: ''Romantic Melancholy''
*[[Carl Jung]]: ''On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry''
*[[Leon Trotsky]]: ''The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism''
*[[Boris Eikhenbaum]]: ''The Theory of the "Formal Method"''
*[[Virginia Woolf]]: ''A Room of One's Own''
*[[I. A. Richards]]: ''Practical Criticism''
*[[Mikhail Bakhtin]]: ''Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel''
*[[Georges Bataille]]: ''The Notion of Expenditure''
*[[John Crowe Ransom]]: ''Poetry: A Note in Ontology''; ''Criticism as Pure Speculation''
*[[R. P. Blackmur]]: ''A Critic's Job of Work''
*[[Jacques Lacan]]: ''The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience''; ''The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud''
*[[György Lukács]]: ''The Ideal of the Harmonious Man in Bourgeois Aesthetics''; ''Art and Objective Truth''
*[[Paul Valéry]]: ''Poetry and Abstract Thought''
*[[Kenneth Burke]]: ''Literature as Equipment for Living''
*[[Ernst Cassirer]]: ''Art''
*[[W. K. Wimsatt]] and [[Monroe Beardsley]]: ''The Intentional Fallacy'', ''The Affective Fallacy''
*[[Cleanth Brooks]]: ''The Heresy of Paraphrase''; ''Irony as a Principle of Structure''
*[[Jan Mukařovský]]: ''Standard Language and Poetic Language''
*[[Jean-Paul Sartre]]: ''Why Write?''
*[[Simone de Beauvoir]]: ''The Second Sex''
*[[Ronald Crane]]: ''Toward a More Adequate Criticism of Poetic Structure''
*[[Philip Wheelwright]]: ''The Burning Fountain''
*[[Theodor Adorno]]: ''Cultural Criticism and Society''; ''Aesthetic Theory''
*[[Roman Jakobson]]: ''The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles''
*[[Northrop Frye]]: ''Anatomy of Criticism''; ''The Critical Path''
*[[Gaston Bachelard]]: ''The Poetics of Space''
*[[Ernst Gombrich]]: ''Art and Illusion''
*[[Martin Heidegger]]: ''The Nature of Language''; ''Language in the Poem''; ''[[Hölderlin]] and the Essence of Poetry''
*[[E. D. Hirsch Jr.]]: ''Objective Interpretation''
*[[Noam Chomsky]]: ''Aspects of the Theory of Syntax''
*[[Jacques Derrida]]: ''Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences''
*[[Roland Barthes]]: ''The Structuralist Activity''; ''The Death of the Author''
*[[Michel Foucault]]: ''Truth and Power''; ''What Is an Author?''; ''The Discourse on Language''
*[[Hans Robert Jauss]]: ''Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory''
*[[Georges Poulet]]: ''Phenomenology of Reading''
*[[Raymond Williams]]: ''The Country and the City''
*[[Lionel Trilling]]: ''The Liberal Imagination'';
*[[Julia Kristeva]]: ''From One Identity to Another''; ''Women's Time''
*[[Paul de Man]]: ''Semiology and Rhetoric''; ''The Rhetoric of Temporality''
*[[Harold Bloom]]: ''[[The Anxiety of Influence]]''; ''The Dialectics of Poetic Tradition''; ''Poetry, Revisionism, Repression''
*[[Chinua Achebe]]: ''Colonialist Criticism''
*[[Stanley Fish]]: ''Normal Circumstances, Literal Language, Direct Speech Acts, the Ordinary, the Everyday, the Obvious, What Goes Without Saying, and Other Special Cases''; ''Is There a Text in This Class?''
*[[Edward Said]]: ''The World, the Text, and the Critic''; ''Secular Criticism''
*[[Elaine Showalter]]: ''Toward a Feminist Poetics''
*[[Sandra Gilbert]] and [[Susan Gubar]]: ''Infection in the Sentence''; ''The Madwoman in the Attic''
*[[Murray Krieger]]: ''"A Waking Dream": The Symbolic Alternative to Allegory''
*[[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]]: ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]: Capitalism and Schizophrenia''
*[[René Girard]]: ''The Sacrificial Crisis''
*[[Hélène Cixous]]: ''The Laugh of the Medusa''
*[[Jonathan Culler]]: ''Beyond Interpretation''
*[[Geoffrey Hartman]]: ''Literary Commentary as Literature''
*[[Wolfgang Iser]]: ''The Repertoire''
*[[Hayden White]]: ''The Historical Text as Literary Artifact''
*[[Hans-Georg Gadamer]]: ''[[Truth and Method]]''
*[[Paul Ricoeur]]: ''The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling''
*[[Peter Szondi]]: ''On Textual Understanding''
*[[M. H. Abrams]]: ''How to Do Things with Texts''
*[[J. Hillis Miller]]: ''The Critic as Host''
*[[Clifford Geertz]]: ''Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought''
*[[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]]: ''The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism''
*[[Tristan Tzara]]: ''Unpretentious Proclamation''
*[[André Breton]]: ''The Surrealist Manifesto''; ''The Declaration of 27 January 1925''
*[[Mina Loy]]: ''Feminist Manifesto''
*[[Yokomitsu Riichi]]: ''Sensation and New Sensation''
*[[Oswald de Andrade]]: ''Cannibalist Manifesto''
*[[André Breton]], [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Diego Rivera]]: ''Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art''
*[[Hu Shih]]: ''Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature''
*[[Octavio Paz]]: ''The Bow and the Lire''
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