pt. 1: lecture 1. Thinking theorectically ; lecture 2. Plato, kicking out the poets ; lecture 3. Aristotle's Poetics, mimesis and plots ; lecture 4. Aristotle's Poetics, character and catharsis ; lecture 5. Horace's Ars Poetica ; lecture 6. Longinus on the sublime ; lecture 7. Sidney's apology for poetry ; lecture 8. Dryden, Pope, and decorum ; lecture 9. Burke on the sublime and the beautiful ; lecture 10. Kant's Critique of judgment ; lecture 11. Schiller on aesthetics ; lecture 12. Hegel and the journey of the idea
pt. 2: lecture 13. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and British romanticism ; lecture 14. Mr. Wordsworth's Preface ; lecture 15. Coleridge, transcendental philosopher ; lecture 16. Shelley's Defense of poetry lecture 17. The function of criticism, Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot ; lecture 18. The status of poetry, I.A. Richards and John Crowe Ransom ; lecture 19. Heresies and fallacies, W.K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks ; lecture 20. Archetypal theory, Saint Paul to Northrop Frye ; lecture 21. Origins of Modernism ; lecture 22. Structuralism, Ferdinand de Saussure to Michel Foucault ; lecture 23. Jacques Derrida on deconstruction ; lecture 24. Varieites of postmodernism.
