Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

admiration alliteration Arnold artistic beauty Besant better called Canterbury Tales character Charles Lamb Chaucer classic Coleridge Cowley Dickens Dickens's Dryden Edgar Poe effect English essay estimate example expression eyes fact faculty fancy feeling fiction genius George Eliot give human idea imagination impression intellectual John Ruskin judgment kind language less literary criticism literature living manner matter means metaphysical poets Milton mind modern moral nature never Nevermore novel object opinion Othello Ovid passion peculiar perfect perhaps Petrarch philosophical Pickwick Papers pleasure Poe's poem poet poetic poetry principle prose question Quincey Quincey's reader reason regard Robert Montgomery Ruskin seems sense Shakespeare sort soul sound speak spirit stanza story style Suspiria Swift taste things thou thought tion true truth Ulalume Venus and Adonis verse Virgil whole words Wordsworth writing