Criticism Books

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction

William Dean Howells

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction by William Dean Howells. It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the o..

The American Spirit in Literature

Bliss Perry

The United States of America has been from the beginning in a perpetual change. The physical and mental restlessness of the American and the temporary nature of many of his arrangements are largely du..

Adventures among Books

Andrew Lang

Of the Essays in this volume “Adventures among Books,” and “Rab’s Friend,” appeared in Scribner’s Magazine; and “Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson” (to the best of the author’s memory) in The No..

Appreciations, With An Essay on Style

Walter Horatio Pater

Appreciations, With An Essay on Style written by Walter Horatio Pater...

Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake

Rev. W. Tcikwell

It is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized.  A few years more, and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable, though by person..

An anthology of German literature

Calvin Thomas

This book is designed to accompany an introductory study of the history of German literature. It is assumed that the history itself will be learned, so far as necessary, either from lectures or from s..

An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human, to forgive divine," "A little learning i..

The Art of the Moving Picture

Vachel Lindsay

The Art of the Moving Picture book is Intended, First Of All, For The New Art Museums Springing Up All Over The Country. But The Book Is For Our Universities And Institutions Of Learning. It Contains ..