Leitch Vincent B., Cain William E. et al. (eds.) The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

3rd edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. — 2815 p. — ISBN 978-0-393-60295-1.The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, is more comprehensive and more varied in its selection than any other anthology. Forty-eight new selections—concentrated mostly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—make the book not only the best overview of the history of theory, but also a remarkably up-to-date portrait of the state of theory today.Gorgias of Leontini (ca. 483-376 B.C.E.)
Plato (ca. 427-ca. 347 B.C.E.)
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E)
Horace (65-8 B.C.E.)
Longinus (first century C.E.)
Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)-
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1365-ca.1429)
Joachim du Bellay (ca.1522-1560)
Giacopo Mazzoni (1548-1598)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Germaine Necker de Staël (1766-1817)
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Matthew Arnold ((1822-1888)
Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)