Preliminary Class Business
1. The "New Criticism"
- Readings on our syllabus to date:
- Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926)
- John Crowe Ransom, from "Wanted: An Ontological Critic" (pp. 279-316 only) from his New Criticism (1941)
- Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" from his The Well Wrought Urn (1947)
- Cleanth Brooks, excerpt from "Irony as a Principle of Structure" (1949)
- W. K. Wimsatt, "The Concrete Universal" (1947), rpt. in his The Verbal Icon (1954)
- Other materials for discussion: