The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry - Paperbackby W. K. Wimsatt (Author) The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W. K. Wimsatt's assumption is that practice and theory of both the past and the present are integrally related that there is a continuity in the materials of criticism that a person who studies poetry today has a critical concern, not merely a historical interest, in what Aristotle or Plato said about