| 1911 | The New Criticism. A reprint of a celebrated lecture that advocates a close reading of a poet's work rather than a consideration of his or her biographical or historical background. The volume anticipates subsequent critical debate and provides the name for the critical movement that would dominate literary analysis from the 1930s to the 1960s. Spingarn was a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University from 1899 to 1911 as well as a poet of volumes such as The New Hesperides (1911) and Poems (1924). |
