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The Authority of Criticism, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)
The Authority of Criticism and Other Essays - Classic Reprint Author:William Peterfield Trent THE comparatively recent visit of NT. Ferdinand Brunetiere to this country has stimulated among us fresh interest in a question that is almost as old as the hills, and as varied in the forms it assumes; to wit, what is the weight of authority carried by criticism? Is there such a thing, men are asking themselves, as a science of criticism, or is... more » all criticism at bottom merely the expression of an individual opinion, unsupported, or supported in varying degrees, by other individual opinions? If it is well-nigh impossible to eliminate the personal equation in strictly scientific experiments. is it worth while, they ask, to try to elirninate it from our studies in the semi-sciences, such as ethics and historv . .- or in the arts? In other words, is not criticism a present, individual act; ought not the critic to say" I " instead of" we "; and is not everyone of us that reads a book or looks at
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CONTENTS; THE AUTHORITY OF CRITICIS~I •; APROPOS OF SHELLEY •; LITERATURE A:D lIORALS; THE NATL"RE OF LITERATl7RE; O~ TRA"SLATI~G HORACE; THE BYRO~ REVIVAL; TEACHIXG THE SPIRIT OF LITERATt)RE; :lR HOWELLS AXD RO:IA)l·ICIS:I ; 'l'ESXYSOX A~D :1 CSSET O:CE MORE ; PAGE; I; ,-; ),); 97; 203; 237
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