#booktok #philosophy #literature #literarytheory Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa ENG 3375 -- Contemporary Literary Theory Week 2 An introduction to the History of Literary Theory. This is the third of three lectures on that history, dealing with the core texts of Neo-classical and Romantic Literary Theory: Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poetry, Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and William Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KxgzguToiwDukgfACnUY38WJZHA5mJk9/view?usp=sharing Course Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/courses/contemporary-literary-theory-2025-26 0:00 - Introduction 0:23 - Sidney's Defense of Poetry 10:01 - Pope's An Essay on Criticism 22:23 - Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads 32:22 - Summary of the History of Literary Theory Related Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWps2AkdcfE&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=1&t=963s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0LwP5IUCLU&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V8PplEBK4xBUCbTxT47JQs&index=1&t=757s&pp=iAQB0gcJCTgLAYcqIYzvsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cszzjoqI6xU&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V8PplEBK4xBUCbTxT47JQs&index=5&t=375s&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfSxI72wPO4&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V8PplEBK4xBUCbTxT47JQs&index=27&pp=iAQBsAgC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHz3QDzzLnk&t=91s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0YGzzfwf0U&t=404s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RsoS2917N0&t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4EVsurjKE&t=1564s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAAHbV-9UWc&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4VJwHJUp2Eg8_kAIkh9vwIW&index=1&t=1s&pp=iAQBsAgC