: Prasad provides detailed entries on pivotal figures in English criticism, such as: Sir Philip Sidney : Defense of poetry during the Elizabethan period. John Dryden & Alexander Pope : Transition into the Neoclassical period. Samuel Johnson : The role of the "judicial" critic. Matthew Arnold & Walter Pater
Omission of Contemporary Theory. Prasad gives 50 pages to Aristotle and maybe 3 pages to Postmodernism. In a 2024 syllabus requiring Derrida and Foucault, Prasad is useless for the last two units. an introduction to literary criticism by b prasad cracked