Shelly Said ot poetry that it compels us to feel that which we perceive, and to imagine what we know It strips The veil of familiarity , What the Russian’s called defamiliarisation

SAmol Johnson wrote first detailed commentary on something other than the bible=Shakespeare. As the church was Suspicious of entertainment this marks a move towards the secular

Ovid = docere delictendo= to teach by delighting(to entertain is literature’s goal) Sir Philip Sidney said it has to at least entertain or else it would probably not suceed At All in any other matter

Critical theory predates literary theory Aristotle in his Poetics said literature is about character, And that character is revealed through Action . Tragedy stimulates the emotions of pity And fear and should end .with a Cartharsis When emotions are exercised

The job of criticism is to interpret the text, to mediate between it And the reader

Sincerity is to be discovered in the text in such matters AS the avoidance of cliche or over- inflated forms of expression, Emotions should emerge implicitly from the presentation of the event

The purpose of literature is essentially the enhancement of life and the propagation of humane values. Keates” we distrust literature which has a palpable design upon us”

Human nature is essentially unchanging. of poetry=” what oft was thought but never so well expressed”

Good literature is of timeless significance. Ben Johnson (on Shakespeare) “not for an Age, but for all time” EZRA Pound=”news which stays news”

I. A. Richards at Cambridge= Practical Criticism(1929)- isolating the text from history and context = just study the words on the page

with religion waning and a growing economic divide, education, espcially English lit, would help build a national unity. Interacting idea to use it as a form of stale propaganda

English literature would serve” to emancipat us … from the notions and habits which ar peculiar to our own age” connecting us instead with ” what is fixed and enduring” F. D. Maurice,1840, King’s College

I had no idea the first English degree was taught in 1828