Introduction: the state of criticism today, by M. Bradbury.--Criticism as a humanist discipline, by G. Hough.--Battering the object: the ontological approach, by W. K. Wimsatt.--Generic criticism: the approach through type, mode and kind, by A. Rodway.--The criticism of comparison: the approach through comparative literature and intellectual history, by J. Fletcher.--The "unconscious" of literature: the psychoanalytic approach, by N. Holland.--Contemporary cultural studies: an approach to the study of literature and society, by R. Hoggart.--The structure of criticism and the languages of poetry: an approach through language, by R. Fowler.--Criticism as an individual activity: the approach through reading, by I. Gregor.