Literary criticism are studies that "define, classify, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of literature...or an author's writings as a whole" (Elihu Burritt Library). Literary criticism is published in books / eBooks and journal articles.
Critical Survey of Poetry: British, Irish and Commonwealth Poets
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Poets covered here include Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer, t.S. Eliot, D.h. Lawrence, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, and William Butler Yeats. new to this edition are Leonard Cohen, Christopher Logue, and harold Pinter.
Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
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Literary criticism is designed as a supplemental text for introduction to literature courses. It introduces students to literary criticism and theory. It can also be used in literary criticism or literary theory courses.
Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript
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The study of Jonathan Swift's works has most often focused on print publication, with less scholarly attention devoted to manuscript circulation. Based on extensive research into the manuscript versions of Swift's poetry, Stephen Karian's analysis suggests new ways of interpreting the different choices Swift made to circulate his texts in either print or manuscript form. He explains Swift's relationships with his publishers in England and Ireland; the ways in which his writings circulated in hand-written form; and the effect that political censorship had on the manner in which his most outspoken political poems were published. Working at the intersection of book history, bibliography, and textual and literary criticism, this book will open up new areas of study for Swift scholars, as well as developing an important methodology for the study of the distribution and reception of literary texts in the eighteenth century.