Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory.

Where others have oriented Wordsworth towards ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or - more recently - political repression, Paul H. Fry argues that underlying all this is a more fundamental insight - Wordsworth is most astonished not ...

A Defense of Poetry argues that literature can be defined - pragmatist and historicist arguments notwithstanding - and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered.

First book to look at Empson's intellectual career as a whole Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity is a seminal text

The book is an exemplary critical act.' -Angus Fletcher

40 yılı aşkın süredir Yale Üniversitesinde ders veren Paul Fry, Önsöz, 26 müstakil bölüm, Ek ve Notlar’dan oluşan kitabında edebiyat kuramının hemen hemen tüm meselelerine temas ediyor.