Handouts and Abyss Notes
(In Chronological Order)

• Abrams Chart
• Hogwarts WAWA Grids

Reading Guides and Vocabulary Lists

• How to Read Lit Crit
• Vocabulary List -- Day-by-Day
• Reading Criticism: What to do with Critical Interpretations

 Classical Criticism

• Plato, Abyss Notes
• Aristotle, Abyss Notes for The Poetics
• Horace, Abyss Notes for "The Art of Poetry"
• Longinus, Abyss Notes for "OnThe Sublime"

• Dante
• Sidney
• Pope
• Johnson

Romantic Criticism

• Wordsworth
• Coleridge
• Keats
• Shelley

• T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Language of Paradox"

Reading Criticism: What to do with Critical Interpretations

Reading Guide for Materials on Myth, Romance, and Modes

How to Do an Affective Response

Sample Response on Dickinson Poem

Important Texts in Feminist Literary Criticism

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Daring to Do Derrida

Study Questions on Poststructuralism and Deconstruction

Study Questions on the New Historicisim

Essay Questions for Final Exam -- 1996

Sample Answers on I.D. Test