The Critical Reader: Analyzing and Judging Literature

action allegory Aristotle audience beauty C. S. Lewis called characters classical comedy comic complex considered contrast conventions describe devices Divine Comedy drama E. M. Forster effect eighteenth century emotions emphasis English epic example experience expressed fact Faerie Queene feel fiction figures Furthermore genre Hamlet hero human iambic iambic pentameter ideas Iliad imitation instance interpretation kind King King Lear language less lines literal literary literature lover Lycidas lyric Major Barbara matter meaning metaphor Milton Moby-Dick modern moral musical narrative neoclassicism novel Oedipus pastoral pattern philosophical phrase play plot poem poet poetic poetry problem prose psychological reading recognize rhyme rhythm romantic romanticism satire scenes seems sense Shakespeare social sometimes sonnet Sophocles stanza story structure suggests syllable symbolic syntax T. S. Eliot term theme theory tion tone traditional tragedy tragicomedy truth various verse W. H. Auden words Wordsworth writers