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BIBLIOGRAPHY

There is no extensive history of the concept of criticism.
See, however, “The Term and Concept of Literary Criti-
cism” in René Wellek, Concepts of Criticism (New Haven,
1963); and most histories of criticism, e.g., George Saints-
bury, A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe,
3 vols. (Edinburgh and New York, 1900-04); J. W. Atkins,
Literary Criticism in Antiquity, 2 vols. (London, 1934; re-
print New York), and three sequels on English Criticism
up to the end of the eighteenth century; René Wellek, A
History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950,
4 vols. (New Haven,
1955-65); up to 1900. Cleanth Brooks and William K.
Wimsatt, Literary Criticism; A Short History (New York,
1957). There is no large history of French criticism. In
German: G. Gudemann, “Kritikos,” in Pauly-Wissowa-Kroll,
Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft
(Stuttgart, 1921), II, 1912-15; Bruno Markwardt, Geschichte
der deutschen Poetik,
5 vols. (Berlin, 1937-67). In Russian:
B. P. Gorodetsky, A. Lavretsky, and B. S. Meilash, eds.
Istoriya russkoi kritiki, 2 vols. (Moscow, 1958). In Italian:
Luigi Russo, La Critica letteraria contemporanea, 3 vols.
(Bari, 1946-47). G. Marzot, “La Critica letteraria dal De
Sanctis ad oggi,” in Letteratura italiana: Le Correnti, 2
(1956). On English criticism: George Watson, The Literary
Critics
(Harmondsworth, 1962). On American criticism:
Norman Foerster, American Criticism (Boston, 1928);
Bernard Smith, Forces in American Criticism (New York,
1939); Stanley Edgar Hyman The Armed Vision (New York,
1948); William Van O'Connor, An Age of Criticism: 1900-
1950
(Chicago, 1952); Floyd Stovall, ed., The Development
of American Literary Criticism
(Chapel Hill, 1955); Walter
Sutton, Modern American Criticism (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., 1963).

RENÉ WELLEK

[See also Beauty; Empathy; Historicism; Literature; Style.]