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HISTORY AND CRITICISM · CRITICISM

John Peck

Also known as: Peck, John

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American poet, Jungian analyst, editor and translator.

I have set three aims before me in constructing this book.

— from Practical Criticism

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A brief history of English literature

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Literary terms and criticism

1984

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Practical Criticism

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Practical Criticism, as conceived by Richards, pays attention to very small units of language in short lyric poems in a way that leads directly to the New Critics' emphasis on 'the poem in itself', and their associated rejection of the analysis of any kind of historical or political context.

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