Wellek's third volume of his massive History of Modern Criticism is more interesting to the current reader than the previous entries, as it tackles some problems which are relevant to this date in literary criticism and theory of art. I really enjoyed the chapter on the Hegelians as well as on Sainte-Beuve. However - and this is not necessarily a bad thing - the book is turning out as more of a history of ideas than of the personal positions adopted by each critic and I specially feel a lack of analysis of the critical works per se.