This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.

Reprinted From The Journal Of English And Germanic Philology, Volume XXXVIII. No. 1, January 1939.

Reprinted From The Journal Of English And Germanic Philology, Volume XXXVIII. No. 1, January 1939.

Reprinted From The Journal Of English And Germanic Philology, Volume XXXVIII. No. 1, January 1939.

This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of value at present, either in developing our own critical thought or in interpreting the most important literature of their own ages.

"Carl Sandburg - American Writers 97 " was first published in 1972. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

"William James - American Writers 88 " was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.