Some Literary theory and analysis books

Some Literary theory and analysis books

I think I should collect some name of literary theory and analysis book. I read a famous forum post about this topic. I found a great list of literary critic books written by great authors. This is not a list of modern day literary theory or writing or analysis or criticism. I had not heard about these great books. Is it a classic book list? I dont know. After reading the full page, sadly I found that I have not read any of the books below. Actually my English reading experience is very poor. I did not read much English or another European language books. I wish if I get any chance to collect hardcopy or softcopy (Free download) of any of the books, I can learn a new thing and gather some further knowledge. By the way, as like modern technology I also love literature. I believe reading is not my hobby, reading is a part of my life.

• Coleridge- Biographia Literaria
• Samuel Johnson- Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
• Virginia Woolf- The Common Reader, The Common Reader Second Series
• T.S. Eliot- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, Collected Essays
• Ezra Pound- Essays, Guide to Kulchur
• Wallace Stevens- Essays in The Palm at the End of the Mind and Opus Posthumous
• Ralph Waldo Emerson- Representative Men
• Gottfried Lessing- Laocoon: or, The limits of Poetry and Painting
• Walter Pater- The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Greek Studies, Plato and Platonism, etc...
• Octavio Paz- Sor Juana de la Cruz, The Bow and the Lyre
• J.L. Borges- Selected Non-Fictions, Other Inquisitions
• Mario Vargas Llosa- Garc�a M�rquez: Story of a Deicide, La org�a perpetua: Flaubert y "Madame Bovary" (The Perpetual Orgy)
• Italo Calvino- Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Why Read the Classics? The Uses of Literature
• Umberto Eco- On Literature
• Charles Baudelaire- The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
• Maurice Blanchot- Fiction and Literary Essays
• Samuel Daniel- A Defense of Rhyme
• The Poets Dante- an anthology including essays by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Borges, Montale, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, W.S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky, Geoffrey Hill and C.K. Williams
• Paul Valery- The Art of Poetry

I should read

• Dante own work about himself
• Il Convivio
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Virginius Puberesque
• Henry James - Art of Novel
• Flaubert Letters
• D.H.Lawrence
• Cortazar
• Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Machado de Assis
• Chesterton
• Poe
• E.M.Foster
• Oscar Wilde
• Bernard Shaw
• Sartre
• Ortega Y Gasseti
• Nabokov
• Anthony Burgess
• Milan Kundera: The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain
• Louis Aragon: Treaty of Style
• Henry Miller: The Books in My Life
• Gore Vidal: United States: Essays 1952-1992 (one section is devoted to literature)
• J.M. Coetzee: Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986-1999; Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000-2005
• E.M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel
• Umberto Eco: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
• Toni Morrison: Playing in the Dark
• Jean-Paul Sartre: What Is Literature?
• Philip Roth: Shop Talk, Reading Myself and Others
• J.P. Sartre- What is literature
• A. Chekhov- The art of writin
• AS Byatt- Passions of the Mind
• Maurice Blanchots The Space of Literature
• Nabokov- Essays on Literature

I collect this valuable list from Online Literature Forum.

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