Patterns of Literary Criticism was a series of ten (?) publications edited by McLuhan along with his UT colleagues, R. J. Schoeck and Ernest Sirluck. The series was originally issued jointly by University of Toronto Press and University of Chicago Press, but was eventually continued by UC Press alone.

Beginning in 1965, titles appearing in the series included:

Aristotle’s Poetics and English Literature (1965)

Shakespeare: The Tragedies (1965)

Russian Literature and Modern English Fiction (1965)

American Drama and Its Critics (1965)

Images of the Negro in American Literature (1966)

The Seventeenth-Century Stage (1968)

Italian Poets and English Critics, 1755-1859 (1969)

Bibliography and Textual Criticism: English and American literature, 1700 to the present (1969)

Contexts of Canadian Criticism (1971)

English Literature and British Philosophy (1971)