Ebook: The verbal icon: studies in the meaning of poetry

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgment; Contents; Introduction; 1; The Intentional Fallacy; The Affective Fallacy; The Chicago Critics: The Fallacy of the Neoclassic Species; 2; The Concrete Universal; Poetry and Morals: A Relation Reargued; The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery; Symbol and Metaphor; 3; The Substantive Level; One Relation of Rhyme to Reason; Rhetoric and Poems: Alexander Pope; When Is Variation ""Elegant""?; Verbal Style: Logical and Counterlogical; 4; The Domain of Criticism; Explication as Criticism.;The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W.K. Wimsatt's assumption is that practice and theory of both the past and the present are integrally related-that there is a continuity in the materials of criticism-that a person who studies poetry today has a critical concern, not merely a historical interest, in what Aristotle or Plato said about poetry. He regards the great perennial problems of criticism as arising not by the whim of a tolerantly pluralist choice, but from the nature of language and reality. With profoun.