Do tell important critics and their works to focus upon

I forget to mention. READ Dryden's ESSAY ON DRAMATIC POESY thoroughly. you may get very tricky questions from this text as it is prescribed in many universities.

Stanley fish - Literal language

Lionel Trilling The liberal imagination

P. b. Shelley Revolt of Islam

should we focus on Socrates ? if yes do tell his important works

I a Richards Practical criticism , empson seven types of ambiguity

Philip Sidney An apology for poetry or the defence of poetry Samuel Johnson lives of poets William wordsworth preface to lyrical ballads Coleridge Biographia literaria Mathew A...