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in England(1931)The Rise of English Literary History(1941)  \nBY AUSTIN WARREN  \nPope as Critic and Humanist(1929)The Elder Henry James(1934)  \nCrashaw:A Study in Baroque Sensibility(1939)Rage for Order(1948)  \nTHEORYOFLITERATURE  \nby  \nRENÉ WELLEK  \nand  \nAUSTIN WAR REN  \nJONATHAN CAPE  \nTHIRTY BEDFORD SQUARELONDON  \nFIRST PUBLISHED 1949REPRINTED 1953REISSU'ED 1954  \nThe naming of this book has been more than ordinarily diffi-cult.Even a proper \"short title,”“Theory of Literature andMethodology of Literary Study,\"would be too cumbersome.Before the nineteenth century one might have managed,for thena full,analytic title could have covered the title-page while thespine bore the inscription“Literature.”  \nWe have written a book which,so far as we know,lacks anyclose parallel.It is not a textbook introducing the young to theelements of literary appreciation nor(like Morize's Aims andMethods)a survey of the techniques employed in scholarlyresearch.Some continuity it may claim with Poetics and Rhet-oric(from Aristotle down through Blair,Campbell,andKames),systematic treatments of the genres of belles-lettres andstylistics,or with books called Principles of Literary Criticism.But we have sought to unite“poetics”(or literary theory)and\"criticism”(evaluation of literature)with\"scholarship”(\"re-search”)and“literary history”(the“dynamics”of literature,in contrast to the“statics”of theory and criticism).It comesnearer to certain German and Russian works,Walzel's Gehaltund Gestalt,or'Julius Petersen's Die Wissenschaft von derDichtung,or Tomashevsky's Literary Theory.In contrast to theGermans,however,we have avoided mere reproductions of theviews of others and,though we take into account other perspec-tives and methods,have written from a consistent point of view;in contrast to Tomashevsky,we do not undertake to give ele-mentary instruction on such topics as prosody.We are noteclectic like the Germans or doctrinaire like the Russian.  \nBy the standards of older American scholarship,there is some-thing grandiose and even“unscholarly”about the very attemptto formulate the assumptions on which literary study is con-ducted (to do which one must go beyond“facts”)and somethingpresumptuous in our effort to survey and evaluate highly special-ized investigations.Every specialist will unavoidably be dissatis-  \n# Preface\n\nfied with our account of his specialty.But we have not aimed atminute completeness:the literary examples cited are alwaysexamples,not“proof”;the bibliographies are“selective.”Norhave we undertaken to answer all the questions we raise.Wehave judged it of central use to ourselves and others to be inter-national in our scholarship,to ask the right questions,to providean organon of method.  \nThe authors of this book,who first met at the University ofIowa in 1939,immediately felt their large agreement in literarytheory and methodology.  \nThough of differing backgrounds and training,both had fol-lowed a similar pattern of development,passing through histori-cal research and work in the\"history of ideas,\"to the positionthat literary study should be specifically literary.Both believedthat“scholarship”and“criticism”were compatible;both refusedto distinguish between“contemporary”and past literature.  \nIn 194I,they contributed chapters on“History”and“Criti-cism”to a collaborative volume,Literary Scholarship,instigatedand edited by Norman Foerster,to whose thought and encour-agement they are conscious of owing much.To him(were it notto give a misleading impression of his own doctrine)they woulddedicate this book.  \nThe chapters of the present book were undertaken on the basisof existing interests.Mr.Wellek is primarily responsible forchapters I-2,4-7,9-I4,and I9,Mr.Warren for chapters 3,8,and I5-18;both shared equally in the concluding chapter.Butthe book is a real instance of a collaboration in which the authoris the shared 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