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Frye addresses what he sees as the four main approaches to criticism: the historical, the ethical, the archetypal and the theoretical. His text is considered a classic of modern literary criticism.

Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works of the western literary tradition and essential writers of the ages. The Western Canon was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.

Celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane. The distillation of a lifetime of criticism, it is one of Bloom's most profoundly personal books to date.

An anthology of poems which attempts to give readers the possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry.

The nation's most celebrated literary critic introduces children to the exciting world of literature through this collection of great stories by Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake, O. Henry, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and others. 100,000 first printing.

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a monumental figure in 19th-century Germany, and his Faust stands among the finest works of Western literature.

This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron.

A literary critic and scholar presents a collection of nine essays as he nears his 100th birthday, exploring themes related to Kant, Keats, and Hazlitt, along with reflections on the joy of reading poetry aloud.

Hra Othello patrí medzi najznámejšie tragédie Williama Shakespearea. Othello je dobre známym, nadčasovým symbolom žiarlivosti. Dej je zasadený do romantického prostredia Benátok 16. storočia. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) nebol len veľký dramatik – bude sa o ňom vždy hovoriť aj ako o najväčšom básnikovi divadla. Aj nový slovenský preklad Othella je dielom básnika – hru preložil Ľubomír Feldek. Všetky preklady v tejto sérii sa opierajú o najlepšie kritické vydanie THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE.