Literary Criticism A Short History Author:William K. Wimsatt Jr., Cleanth Brooks The substance of the book includes Greek and Roman classicism, Renaissance, Augustan, romantic, and Victorian English criticism, and 20th-century English and American. In addition, there are excursions or inter-chapters or sections of chapters dealing with the Middle Ages and with main episodes in modern Italian, French, German, and Russian crit... more »icism.« less