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*'''Main Critics and Texts''' | *'''Main Critics and Texts''' | ||
**Lodovico Castelvetro: "The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained" | **Lodovico Castelvetro: "The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained" | ||
**Philip Sidney: | **Philip Sidney: "An Apology for Poetry" | ||
**Jacopo Mazzoni: | **Jacopo Mazzoni: "On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante" | ||
**Torquato Tasso: | **Torquato Tasso: "Discourses on the Heroic Poem" | ||
**Francis Bacon: | **Francis Bacon: "The Advancement of Learning" | ||
**Henry Reynolds: | **Henry Reynolds: "Mythomystes" | ||
'''Enlightment Critics''' <br />From Milton in England to Henry David Thoreau and even later with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, these authors frequently questioned and criticized literature, Arts , Social Norms essentially expanding their predecessors platforms.<ref>van Gelder, G. J. H. (1982), Beyond the Line: Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the Poem, Brill Publishers, pp. 1–2, ISBN 90-04-06854-6</ref>. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that focused on changing society through the use of reason and logic instead of relying on faith and religion. As such, critics during the Enlightenment criticized literature through this lens, focusing on how literature could change society using logic and facts rather than chalking everything up to religion, faith, or God. <ref>Kors, Alan Charles. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. Print.</ref><br /> | '''Enlightment Critics''' <br />From Milton in England to Henry David Thoreau and even later with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, these authors frequently questioned and criticized literature, Arts , Social Norms essentially expanding their predecessors platforms.<ref>van Gelder, G. J. H. (1982), Beyond the Line: Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the Poem, Brill Publishers, pp. 1–2, ISBN 90-04-06854-6</ref>. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that focused on changing society through the use of reason and logic instead of relying on faith and religion. As such, critics during the Enlightenment criticized literature through this lens, focusing on how literature could change society using logic and facts rather than chalking everything up to religion, faith, or God. <ref>Kors, Alan Charles. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. Print.</ref><br /> | ||
*'''Examples of Enlightenment Criticism''' | *'''Examples of Enlightenment Criticism''' | ||