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'''Renaissance Criticism''' <br/ >The beginning of the Renaissance critics started in 1498 with the translation of the classic texts. The most important of these translations was of Aristotle’s Poetics, translated by Giorgio Valla. Throughout the Renaissance many authors critiqued classic works, as well as criticizing modern works.<ref>Hall, V. (1963). A Short History of Literay Criticism . London: The Merlin Press.</ref>

*'''Main Critics and Texts'''  

**Lodovico Castelvetro: "The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained"

**Philip Sidney: "An Apology for Poetry"

**Jacopo Mazzoni: "On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante"

**Torquato Tasso: "Discourses on the Heroic Poem"

**Francis Bacon: "The Advancement of Learning"

**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 />