Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment

I have set three aims before me in constructing this book. First to introduce a new kind of documentation to those who are interested in the contemporary state of culture whether as critics as philosophers as teachers as psychologists or merely as curious persons. Secondly to provide a new technique for those who wish to discover for themselves what they think and feel about poetry (and cognate matters) and why they should like or dislike it. Thirdly to prepare the way for educational methods more efficient than those we use now in developing discrimination and the power to understand what we hear and read. Many of the earliest books particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable high quality modern editions using the original text and artwork.