Criticism History

This document provides an overview of descriptive criticism and summarizes several influential literary critics and their works. Descriptive criticism involves analyzing existing literary works to understand their aims, methods, and effects. It then discusses major critics like John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, S.T. Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Mathew Arnold, and T.S. Eliot and their most important works on literary criticism.