Criticism Books

Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Anonymous

The identity of the "Anonymous" of Some Remarks on Hamlet Prince of Denmark has never been established. The tradition that Hanmer wrote the essay had its highly dubious origin in a single unsupported ..

The Craft of Fiction

Percy Lubbock

The Craft of Fiction is an important Criticism work by essayist, and literary critic Percy Lubbock. Lubbock's outlook in this publication is an obvious extension to that of Henry James and he works to..

We Philologists, Volume 8

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To what a great extent men are ruled by pure hazard, and how little reason itself enters into the question, is sufficiently shown by observing how few people have any real capacity for their professio..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 2 - Carlyle)

John Morley

The new library edition of Mr. Carlyle's works may be taken for the final presentation of all that the author has to say to his contemporaries, and to possess the settled form in which he wishes his w..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 3 - Byron)

John Morley

It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution. Nowhere is the antipathy to princip..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 4 - Macaulay )

John Morley

'After glancing my eye over the design and order of a new book,' says Gibbon, 'I suspended the perusal till I had finished the task of self-examination, till I had revolved in a solitary walk all that..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (Essay 1 - Vauvenargues )

John Morley

One of the most important phases of French thought in the great century of its illumination is only thoroughly intelligible, on condition that in studying it we keep constantly in mind the eloquence, ..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (Essay 2 - Condorcet)

John Morley

Of the illustrious thinkers and writers who for two generations had been actively scattering the seed of revolution in France, only Condorcet survived to behold the first bitter in gathering of the ha..