Critical Occasions: Dryden, Pope, Johnson and the History of Criticism

by Philip Smallwood

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Critical Occasions examines the relations between selected critical texts of Dryden, Pope, and Johnson, and the theoretical problems that arise in writing the history of the critical past. It is a book about three great Augustan critics and about the theory and philosophy of history in its application to criticism. Philip Smallwood was Professor of English at Birmingham City University for many years and is presently Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at Bristol University.
  • ISBN13 9780404648657
  • Publish Date 1 March 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint AMS Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 250
  • Language English