Practical Criticism / Close-Reading

1.
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 4.09 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) 4.34 avg rating — 766 ratings
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Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets 3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry
The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Force of Poetry
The Force of Poetry 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics 4.12 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
Seven Types of Ambiguity 3.82 avg rating — 591 ratings
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The Waste Land: Authoritative Text, Context, and Criticism
The Waste Land: Authoritative Text, Context, and Criticism 4.11 avg rating — 57,832 ratings
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If Not Critical
If Not Critical 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism
Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism 4.28 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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Conceitful thought: The interpretation of English Renaissance poems
Conceitful thought: The interpretation of English Renaissance poems 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays
Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Milton's Grand Style
Milton's Grand Style 4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now 4.23 avg rating — 117 ratings
15.
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History 3.95 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Essays in Appreciation
Essays in Appreciation 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Structure of Complex Words
The Structure of Complex Words 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Religion and the Ku Klux Klan: Biblical Appropriation in Their Literature and Songs
Religion and the Ku Klux Klan: Biblical Appropriation in Their Literature and Songs 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Shakespeare's Wordplay (University Paperbacks 242 242)
Shakespeare's Wordplay (University Paperbacks 242 242) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies) 4.47 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Allusion to the Poets
Allusion to the Poets 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Essays on World Literature: Aeschylus • Dante • Shakespeare
Essays on World Literature: Aeschylus • Dante • Shakespeare 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Some Versions of Pastoral
Some Versions of Pastoral 3.95 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult 3.75 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry 3.83 avg rating — 385 ratings
25.
On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000
On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy
Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War 4.09 avg rating — 282 ratings
29.
T S Eliot and Prejudice
T S Eliot and Prejudice 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Antaeus #59: Literature as Pleasure
Antaeus #59: Literature as Pleasure 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990
Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature (New Directions Books)
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature (New Directions Books) 4.41 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Keats and embarrassment
Keats and embarrassment 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Shakespeare's grammatical style;: A computer-assisted analysis of Richard II and Anthony and Cleopatra, (The Dan Danciger publication series)
Shakespeare's grammatical style;: A computer-assisted analysis of Richard II and Anthony and Cleopatra, (The Dan Danciger publication series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner
On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose
The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance
Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Along Heroic Lines
Along Heroic Lines 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Uses of Literature
The Uses of Literature 4.07 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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Thomas Hardy and British poetry
Thomas Hardy and British poetry 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox
Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Identity of Yeats
The Identity of Yeats 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Shakespeare's Language
Shakespeare's Language really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision
Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision 4.53 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature 4.34 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just
Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just 4.43 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Babel to Byzantium: Poets and Poetry Now
Babel to Byzantium: Poets and Poetry Now 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument
Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art
Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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American Originality: Essays on Poetry
American Originality: Essays on Poetry 3.87 avg rating — 346 ratings
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That Wondrous Pattern: Essays on Poetry and Poets
That Wondrous Pattern: Essays on Poetry and Poets 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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What Persists: Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014 (Georgia Review Books)
What Persists: Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014 (Georgia Review Books) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form 3.98 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Dylan's Visions of Sin
Dylan's Visions of Sin 3.69 avg rating — 549 ratings