I think I should collect some name of literary theory and analysis book. I read a famous forum post about this topic. I found a great list of literary critic books written by great authors. This is not a list of modern day literary theory or writing or analysis or criticism. I had not heard about these great books. Is it a classic book list? I don't know. After reading the full page, sadly I found that I have not read any of the books below. Actually my English reading experience is very poor. I did not read much English or another European language books. I wish if I get any chance to collect hardcopy or softcopy (Free download) of any of the books, I can learn a new thing and gather some further knowledge. By the way, as like modern technology I also love literature. I believe reading is not my hobby, reading is a part of my life.
- Coleridge- Biographia Literaria
- Samuel Johnson- Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
- Virginia Woolf- The Common Reader, The Common Reader Second Series
- T.S. Eliot- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, Collected Essays
- Ezra Pound- Essays, Guide to Kulchur
- Wallace Stevens- Essays in The Palm at the End of the Mind and Opus Posthumous
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Representative Men
- Gottfried Lessing- Laocoon: or, The limits of Poetry and Painting
- Walter Pater- The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Greek Studies, Plato and Platonism, etc...
- Octavio Paz- Sor Juana de la Cruz, The Bow and the Lyre
- J.L. Borges- Selected Non-Fictions, Other Inquisitions
- Mario Vargas Llosa- García Márquez: Story of a Deicide, La orgía perpetua: Flaubert y "Madame Bovary" (The Perpetual Orgy)
- Italo Calvino- Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Why Read the Classics? The Uses of Literature
- Umberto Eco- On Literature
- Charles Baudelaire- The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
- Maurice Blanchot- Fiction and Literary Essays
- Samuel Daniel- A Defense of Rhyme
- The Poet's Dante- an anthology including essays by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Borges, Montale, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, W.S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky, Geoffrey Hill and C.K. Williams
- Paul Valery- The Art of Poetry
I should read
- Dante own work about himself
- Il Convivio
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Virginius Puberesque
- Henry James - Art of Novel
- Flaubert Letters
- D.H.Lawrence
- Cortazar
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Machado de Assis
- Chesterton
- Poe
- E.M.Foster
- Oscar Wilde
- Bernard Shaw
- Sartre
- Ortega Y Gasseti
- Nabokov
- Anthony Burgess
- Milan Kundera: The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain
- Louis Aragon: Treaty of Style
- Henry Miller: The Books in My Life
- Gore Vidal: United States: Essays 1952-1992 (one section is devoted to literature)
- J.M. Coetzee: Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986-1999; Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000-2005
- E.M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel
- Umberto Eco: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
- Toni Morrison: Playing in the Dark
- Jean-Paul Sartre: What Is Literature?
- Philip Roth: Shop Talk, Reading Myself and Others
- J.P. Sartre- What is literature
- A. Chekhov- The art of writin
- AS Byatt- Passions of the Mind
- Maurice Blanchot's The Space of Literature
- Nabokov- Essays on Literature
I collect this valuable list from Online Literature Forum.
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