List of Works

Anatomy of Criticism

The Critical Path

The Educated Imagination

Fables of Identity

Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake

The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Man the Myth Maker

The Modern Century

Romanticism Reconsidered

The Secular Scripture

Sound and Poetry

A Study of English Romanticism

Creation and Recreation

Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy

(not a complete list)

"Again, nothing can give a writer’s experience and sensitivity any form except the study of literature itself. In this study the great classics, 'monuments of its own magnificence,' and the best contemporaries have an obvious priority...[H]e needs those traditions in any case. He needs them most of all when what faces him seems so new as to threaten his identity."

"In the thematic aspect of literature, the external relation between author and reader becomes more prominent, and when it does, the emotions of pity and terror are involved or contained rather than purged. In catharsis the emotions are purged by being attached to objects; where they are involved with the response they are unattached and remain prior conditions in the mind. "