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**St. Augustine: "On Christian Doctrine" | **St. Augustine: "On Christian Doctrine" | ||
**Boethius: "The Consolation of Philosophy" | **Boethius: "The Consolation of Philosophy" | ||
**Aquinas: "The Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine | **Aquinas: "The Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine" | ||
**Dante: "The Banquet, Letter to Can Grande Della Scala" | **Dante: "The Banquet, Letter to Can Grande Della Scala" | ||
**Boccaccio: "Life of Dante, Genealogy of the Gentile Gods" | **Boccaccio: "Life of Dante, Genealogy of the Gentile Gods" | ||
**Anandavardhana: "Light on Suggestion" | **Anandavardhana: "Light on Suggestion" | ||
**Cao Pi: "A Discourse on Literature" | **Cao Pi: "A Discourse on Literature" | ||
**Lu Ji: "Rhymeprose on Literature | **Lu Ji: "Rhymeprose on Literature" | ||
**Liu Xie: "The Literary Mind" | **Liu Xie: "The Literary Mind" | ||
**Wang Changling: "A Discussion of Literature and Meaning" | **Wang Changling: "A Discussion of Literature and Meaning" | ||
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'''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''' | ||
**Thomas Hobbes: | **Thomas Hobbes: "Answer to Davenant's preface to Gondibert" | ||
**Pierre Corneille: | **Pierre Corneille: "Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place" | ||
**John Dryden: | **John Dryden: "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy" | ||
**Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux: | **Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux: "The Art of Poetry" | ||
**John Locke: | **John Locke: "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" | ||
**Samuel Johnson: | **Samuel Johnson: "On Fiction, Rasselas, Preface to Shakespeare" | ||
**Edward Young: | **Edward Young: "Conjectures on Original Composition" | ||
**Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: | **Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: "Laocoön" | ||
**Joshua Reynolds: | **Joshua Reynolds: "Discourses on Art" | ||
**Richard "Conversation" Sharp: | **Richard "Conversation" Sharp: "Letters & Essays in Prose & Verse" | ||
**Immanuel Kant: | **Immanuel Kant: "Critique of Judgment" | ||
**Mary Wollstonecraft: | **Mary Wollstonecraft: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" | ||
**William Blake: | **William Blake: "The Marriage of Heaven or Hell; Letter to Thomas Butts; Annotations to Reynolds' Discourses; A Descriptive Catalogue; A Vision of the Last Judgment; On Homer's Poetry" | ||
==Types of literary criticism== | ==Types of literary criticism== | ||