The classic (The T. S. Eliot memorial lectures)
Attempts to determine the criteria for classical literature through an analysis of the social and intellectual importance of great works of the past.
More by Frank Kermode
The Sense of an Ending
The Literary Guide to the Bible
Shakespeare's Language
The Genesis of Secrecy
John Donne.
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: The literature of Renaissance England [by] J. Hollander and F. Kermode
The classic: Literary images of permanence and change
Poetry, Narrative, History (Bucknell Lecture Series in Literary Theory)
A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-century Novel
Modern Essays
A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-century Writers
History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987