Concepts & Ideas

• Plato – Mimesis

• Longinus – The Sublime

• Philip Sidney – Defence of Poetry

• Stephen Gosson – Views against Poetry

• Samuel Johnson – Views of Shakespeare and the “Three Unities”

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Imagination and Fancy

• John Keats – Negative Capability

• F.R. Leavis – Enactment

• W.K. Wimsatt & Monroe C. Beardsley – Affective Fallacy, Intentional Fallacy