Tracing the influence of Aristotle on literary criticism (both ancient and modern), the author analyzes such basic tenets as mimesis, universality, and morality in the theory of Horace, Longinus, Sir Philip Sidney, Samuel Johnson, Samuel ...

Hayden moves through Wordsworth's view of the relationship of mind and nature; the influence of eighteenth-century psychological thought on him; the influence of his own psychology on his literary and creative thought; his psychological ...

This is a critical analysis of Pierre Boulle, author of Planet of the Apes (1963) and Bridge over the River Kwai (1952).