Unit 1 Readings








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Viktor Shklovsky from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shklovsky

Shklovsky, “Form and Material in Art:”
http://rhetorosaurus.blogspot.com/2007/06/victor-shklovsky-form-and-material-in.html

Intro to I.A. Richards from Cambridge University:
http://belashandstand.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-richards-practical-criticism.html

An exercise in Practical Criticism:
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/vclass/class1/index.htm

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Frost, “Stopping by Woods” from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_by_Woods_on_a_Snowy_Evening

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Arnold, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/displayprosefbe3.html?prosenum=4

Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html

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F.R. Leavis “Life and Work” at Centre for Leavis Studies:
http://mypages.surrey.ac.uk/eds1cj/f-r-leavis-life-and-work.htm

Shakespeare Sonnet 39:
http://www.bartleby.com/70/50039.html

Shakespeare Sonnet 129:
http://www.bartleby.com/70/50129.html

Lars Engle, “William Empson and the Sonnets”:
www.personal.utulsa.edu/~lars-engle/images/William%20Empson%20and%20the%20Sonnets.pdf