 ... and solely to sort out and give coherence to the ideas of Mr. Mencken, and to put them into suave and ingratiating terms, and to discharge them with a flourish, and maybe with a phrase of pretty song, into the dense fog that blanketed the Republic....  Prejudices: Third Series - Page 86de Henry Louis Mencken - 1922 - 328 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Irving Babbitt - 1924 - 342 pages
...song, into the dense fog that blanketed the Republic. The critic's choice of criticism rather than 263 of what is called creative writing is chiefly a matter of temperament — perhaps, more accu- _ rately of hormones — with accidents of education and environment to help. The feelings that... | |
 | Isaac Goldberg - 1925 - 432 pages
...does not quite see the truth of poetry. The root of the matter, as he has written elsewhere concerning the critic's choice of criticism rather than of "what is called creative" writing, lies in "temperament — perhaps more accurately in hormones — with accident of education and environment... | |
 | Gilbert A. Harrison - 1972 - 412 pages
...chiefly a matter of temperament—perhaps, more accurately, a matter of hormones and intestinal flora— with accidents of education and environment to help....him at the moment the scribbling frenzy seizes him and that move him powerfully to seek expression for them in words, are feelings inspired, not by life... | |
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