The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry

These vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed. Criticism has never been, Professor Clare argues, a single discipline, but a collection of more and less distinct conceptual ";languages, "; within any one of which a literary problem takes on a special solution. The Alexander Lectures for 1952

These vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed. Criticism has never been, Professor Clare argues, a single discipline, but a collection of more and less distinct conceptual "languages," within any one of which a literary problem takes on a special solution. 

The Alexander Lectures for 1952.

Preface 9 Acknowledgments 19 Contents 21 The multiplicity of critical languages 23 Poetic structure in the language of Aristotle 61 The languages of contemporary criticism 102 Conceptions of poetic structure in contemporary criticism 137 Toward a more adequate criticism of poetic structure 162 Notes 217 Index 231