CONTENTS:

PART 1 – THE PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY
1. The Platonic dilemma
2. The Aristotelian solution
3. The poet as moral teacher
4. Imitation and instruction
5. The vindication of pleasure
6. Form and the imagination
7. Platonism against Plato
8. Science and poetry
9. The proper sphere of poetry
10. The poet and his medium

PART 2 – PRACTICAL CRITICISM
11. The establishment of a critical sense
12. Possibilities and limitations of a method
13. History, relativism, impressionism
14. From appreciation to analysis
15. Analysis in action

PART 3 – LITERARY CRITICISM AND RELATED DISCIPLINES
16. Criticism and scholarship
17. Criticism and psychology
18. Criticism and sociology
19. Criticism and the cultural context