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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,137 ratings — published 1979
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,617 ratings — published 1992
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,417 ratings — published 1953
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,532 ratings — published 2016
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,676 ratings — published 1980
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 2 times as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,120 ratings — published 2010
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,007 ratings — published 2002
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,296 ratings — published 1949
Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.14 — 21 ratings — published 1992
Approaches to Greek Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.77 — 22 ratings — published 1990
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.26 — 463 ratings — published 1959
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,059 ratings — published 2016
Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.07 — 284 ratings — published
Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.43 — 14 ratings — published 1980
The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.03 — 33 ratings — published 2000
Notes on Novelists with Some Other Notes by Henry James (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1914
Any Person Is the Only Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,125 ratings — published 2024
Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.67 — 15 ratings — published 2023
Jane Eyre (New Casebooks, 141)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.27 — 15 ratings — published 1997
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.99 — 736,884 ratings — published 1987
The Brontës (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.67 — 76 ratings — published 2002
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,803 ratings — published 1989
Penumbra No. 5 (2024): A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Jim Morrison: Fables of the Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Corinthians: Paul, Stoicism, and Spiritual Hierarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
Lecture on Modern Poetry (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.05 — 85 ratings — published
Days of Reading (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,956 ratings — published 1905
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.03 — 207,499 ratings — published 1321
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,934 ratings — published 1969
Studies in Classic American Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.04 — 623 ratings — published 1923
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,056,728 ratings — published 2023
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,613 ratings — published 2019
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,331 ratings — published 2016
The English Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.79 — 38 ratings — published 1970
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.62 — 675 ratings — published 2016
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.17 — 96,802 ratings — published 1942
The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.71 — 87,308 ratings — published 2017
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.59 — 126 ratings — published 2021
J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.19 — 603 ratings — published 2002
The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,594 ratings — published 1979
Time Shelter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.74 — 29,742 ratings — published 2020
The Iliad, or The Poem of Force (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.23 — 834 ratings — published 1940
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,213 ratings — published 2008
فلسفة الفن (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.66 — 254 ratings — published 1958
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.70 — 66 ratings — published 2016
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 4.14 — 484,617 ratings — published 2022
In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.93 — 860 ratings — published 1968
States of Sympathy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literary-critique)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 1997
“The Hamartia of Esteem by Stewart Stafford
A clash of Roses has seared these temples grey,
The brash cur pack supplanting divinity's place,
Nightshade words aimed at codpiece not the face,
Inquisition's gauntlet strikes this judgement day.
A death warrant marked by slander's inked stain?
Scarred by a caricatured actor's grasping fear?
In a groundless play for a groundling's sneer?
Mannequin tyrant in a jailer playwright's disdain?
Time shall be your confessor and guide,
A guest casting stones at yourself in haste,
Purifying my beloved's fair hand, debased,
Redeem her undoing at a vengeful rabble's side.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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A clash of Roses has seared these temples grey,
The brash cur pack supplanting divinity's place,
Nightshade words aimed at codpiece not the face,
Inquisition's gauntlet strikes this judgement day.
A death warrant marked by slander's inked stain?
Scarred by a caricatured actor's grasping fear?
In a groundless play for a groundling's sneer?
Mannequin tyrant in a jailer playwright's disdain?
Time shall be your confessor and guide,
A guest casting stones at yourself in haste,
Purifying my beloved's fair hand, debased,
Redeem her undoing at a vengeful rabble's side.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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“I cannot feel that my appreciation of Milton leads anywhere outside of the mazes of sound.”
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