Plotinus, the neo-Platonic philosopher challenges Plato’s theory that art imitates nature/world of appearances and is thus twice removed from reality. He gives art a higher position in his system. Plotinus…

Among literary critics perhaps the most prominent and prodigious name to be identified with both structuralism and post structuralism is Roland Barthes.  “The Structuralist Activity” represents an early phase of…

Richards shows an interest in the effect of poems on the reader. He tends to locate poem in readers response. The being of the poem seems to exist only in…

Philip Sidney in his Apology for Poetry reacts against the attacks made on poetry by the puritan, Stephen Gosson. To, Sidney, poetry is an art of imitation for specific purpose,…