It depends on how big the school library is but generally literary criticism falls under: 809 Literature - History and criticism, (Literary criticism), (Evaluation of literature), (Books - Appraisal), (Criticism and interpretation) For more specificity, such as poetry: 809.1 Poetry, American poetry, Canadian poetry, English poetry, Love poetry, Children's poetry, Humorous poetry, Religious poetry, War poetry, Poets, (Verse), (Poems)
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Aristotle's contribution to literary criticism is the idea that poetry is an art with an object of its own. Poetry can rationally understood and reduced to an intelligible set of rules.
Aristotle wrote "Poetics," a work that discusses the principles of drama and poetry. It is one of the earliest surviving works of literary criticism.
John Cann Bailey has written: 'The continuity of letters' -- subject(s): English literature, English poetry, Histories, History and criticism, Literary style, Style, Literary, Literary Style 'Some political ideas and persons' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Biography, Statesmen, British Statesmen 'Carducci' 'Poets and poetry, being articles reprinted from the literary supplement of 'The Times'' -- subject(s): History and criticism, English poetry, Poetry 'Poets and poetry' -- subject(s): History and criticism, English poetry, Poetry 'Introduction to Jane Austen' -- subject(s): Biography, English Novelists
M.V Ramana has written: 'Studies in Sanskrit literary criticism' -- subject(s): Sanskrit poetry, History and criticism
Sean Heuston has written: 'Modern Poetry and Ethnography' -- subject(s): Anthropology in literature, Literature and anthropology, History and criticism, Ethnology in literature, Irish authors, English poetry, American poetry, Irish American authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Mutlu Konuk Blasing has written: 'Lyric Poetry' -- subject(s): Lyric poetry, History and criticism 'American poetry--the rhetoric of its forms' -- subject(s): History and criticism, American poetry, Literary form, Rhetoric, English language 'The art of life' -- subject(s): Autobiography, History and criticism, American literature
Nicola Healey has written: 'Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge' -- subject(s): Family, Romanticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature, Family relationships, English Poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Stephen Cushman has written: 'Fictions of form in American poetry' -- subject(s): History and criticism, Theory, American poetry, Literary form
Helena Dettmer has written: 'Love by the numbers' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, Cycles (Literature), Elegiac poetry, Latin, Epigrams, Latin, History, History and criticism, In literature, Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Epigrams, Latin Love poetry, Literary form, Love poetry, Latin
Jeredith Merrin has written: 'An enabling humility' -- subject(s): American Feminist poetry, American poetry, Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature, Feminist poetry, American, History, History and criticism, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Women and literature, Women authors