A classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.

A classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.

The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W.K. Wimsatt's assumption is that practice and theory of both the past and the present are integrally related-that there is a continuity in the materials of criticism-that a person who studies poetry today has a critical concern, not merely a historical intere...(展开全部)

Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for...(展开全部)

柯睿（Paul W. Kroll），1976年獲密西根大學博士學位。曾任教于密西根大學、維吉尼亞大學、科羅拉多大學波爾得分校。獲得國家人文基金、古根海姆基金、美國學術團體協會中國研究獎學金等多種獎勵。在校內外擔任多種重要職務，包括擔任《通報》（T’oung Pao）、《美國東方社會雜誌》（Journal of the American OrientalSociety）、《唐研究》（T’ang Studies）等國際雜誌主編。迄今已出版多部著作，在海內外唐代文學研究、中古道教研究等領域備受矚目。 譯者介紹： 白照傑，河北人，1985年出生。澳門大學人文學院哲學博士。致力於中古道教、中古佛教、佛道二教關係、神話傳說、考古信仰、當代本土宗教現象等問題的研究。即將出版專著《整合及制度化：唐前期道教研究》《十字門內飄法雨：當代澳門佛教問題研究》等若干部。已出版...(展开全部)

This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosoph...(展开全部)

This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosoph...(展开全部)

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking--nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents "literature" as a set of for...(展开全部)

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking--nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents "literature" as a set of for...(展开全部)

Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe," a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked by journeys and exiles, Milosz has developed a sensibility at once warm and detached, flooded with spec...(展开全部)