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DJ's List of Literary Theory and Criticism

This is not exhaustive but I think it's a good representation of the range of literary theory and criticism, including some of my favorites.
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Ion (Plato)
Ion
1
Plato
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetics
2
Aristotle
Rhetoric
Rhetoric
3
Ars Poetica (Horace)
Ars Poetica
4
Horace
On the Sublime
On the Sublime
5
Insitutio Oratoria (Quintilian)
Insitutio Oratoria
6
Quintilian
An Apology for Poetry (Sir Philip Sidney)
An Apology for Poetry
7
Sir Philip Sidney
Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay (John Dryden)
Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay
8
John Dryden
The New Science (Giambattista Vico)
The New Science
9
Giambattista Vico
An Essay on Criticism (Alexander Pope)
An Essay on Criticism
10
Alexander Pope
The Lives of the English Poets (Samuel Johnson)
The Lives of the English Poets
11
Samuel Johnson
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime & Beautiful & Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings (Edmund Burke)
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime & Beautiful & Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings
12
Edmund Burke
Laocoon (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
Laocoon
13
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Friedrich Schiller)
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
14
Friedrich Schiller
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (William Wordsworth)
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
15
William Wordsworth
Biographia Literaria (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Biographia Literaria
16
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Defence of Poetry (Percy Shelley)
A Defence of Poetry
17
Percy Shelley
The Poet (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Poet
18
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Philosophy of Composition (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Philosophy of Composition
19
Edgar Allan Poe
The Painter of Modern Life (Charles-Pierre Baudelaire)
The Painter of Modern Life
20
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (Matthew Arnold)
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
21
Matthew Arnold
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
22
The Art of Fiction (Henry James)
The Art of Fiction
23
Henry James
The Birth of Tragedy (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The Birth of Tragedy
24
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Critic as Artist (Oscar Wilde)
The Critic as Artist
25
Oscar Wilde
The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis (Sigmund Freud)
The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis
26
Sigmund Freud
Course in General Linguistics (De Saussure)
Course in General Linguistics
27
De Saussure
Literature and Revolution (Leon Trotsky)
Literature and Revolution
28
Leon Trotsky
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
A Room of One's Own
29
Virginia Woolf
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent
30
The New Criticism (John Crowe Ransom)
The New Criticism
31
John Crowe Ransom
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
32
Walter Benjamin
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Mikhail Bakhtin)
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
33
Mikhail Bakhtin
The Culture Industry (Theodor Adorno)
The Culture Industry
34
Theodor Adorno
Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry (Roman Jakobson)
Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry
35
Roman Jakobson
The Philosophy of Literary Form (Kenneth Burke)
The Philosophy of Literary Form
36
Kenneth Burke
Ecrits (Jacques Lacan)
Ecrits
37
Jacques Lacan
What Is Literature? (Jean-Paul Sartre)
What Is Literature?
38
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Well-Wrought Urn (Cleanth Brooks)
The Well-Wrought Urn
39
Cleanth Brooks
The Verbal Icon (W.K. Wimsatt)
The Verbal Icon
40
W.K. Wimsatt
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