| 1888 - 438 pages
...an author, to be tested by them. Criticism he defines to be " a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That with which the literary censor has specially to do, is the " criticism of life." If we ask what, in... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 328 pages
...an author, to be tested by themT) Criticism he defines to be " a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That with which the literary censor has specially to do, is the " criticism of life." If we ask what, in... | |
| 1899 - 188 pages
...of criticism at the present time? " he asks, and answers— " A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That is a wide warrant. The writer who exercises his critical function under it, however, is plainly a reformer... | |
| George Edward Woodberry - 1900 - 468 pages
...of criticism at the present time ? " he asks, and answers — "A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That is a wide warrant. The writer who exercises his critical function under it, however, is plainly a reformer... | |
| Alban Bertram De Mille - 1902 - 546 pages
...looking at things. He aimed to know the best ; the aim of every one must be, he says, " to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That is the keynote of his criticism. Be perpetually dissatisfied with all that falls short of a high and perfect... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
..."disinterested," that it should be "in able and honest hands," that it should "endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world," that "the critic should possess ... a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the... | |
| 1903 - 270 pages
...best, must enter into the determining of its permanent value. When Matthew Arnold defined criticism as a "disinterested endeavor to learn and to propagate the best that is known and thonght in the world." he broadened, beyond previous estimate, the field of approach to literature.... | |
| George Edward Woodberry - 1920 - 368 pages
...criticism at the present time?" he asks, and 73 answers — "A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That is a wide warrant. The writer who exercises his critical function under it, however, is plainly a reformer... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 pages
..."disinterested," that it should be "in able and honest hands," that it should "endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world," that "the critic should possess ... a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the... | |
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