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Example sentences for "literary criticism"

  • Literary criticism awoke to life in the trenchant discussions of the art of poetry by Gascoigne and Sidney, by Puttenham, Campion and Daniel.

  • She thought Flaubert too much preoccupied with the sense of form, and makes these excellent observations to him--perhaps her best piece of literary criticism.

  • In literature we may question on text not discussed in class to ascertain the students' power of appreciation or of literary criticism.

  • Author of Some Principles of Literary Criticism, A Group of English Essayists, William Wordsworth: How to Know Him, etc.

  • I am reminded of Anthony Trollope and a recent article on him, in the Times, which was somewhat below the high level of the Times literary criticism.

  • Thus his curt, conventional remarks about Zola might have been composed for a leading article in the Morning Post, instead of for a volume of literary criticism.

  • A careful study of all the similes in Latin poetry would bring to light some interesting facts of literary criticism.

  • Those who wish to know the inartistic expedients to which he resorted to gain applause should read the prologues of Terence, which are most valuable materials for literary criticism.

  • And there it all stands in black and white; one of the most instructive chapters in literary criticism in the world--the battle of a great writer with himself.

  • The best contents of these two volumes were combined in Poems, 1853, and to this book he gave a Preface, which was his first essay in Literary Criticism.

  • We must now turn our attention to his performances in the field of literary criticism; and we begin in the year 1853.

  • A critic who saw far, and for the most part truly, into the proper province of literary criticism.

  • His Longinus on the Sublime, the first of the ancient works on literary criticism which he edited—we might almost say, to our shame, rescued from oblivion—is a most able and inspiring book.

  • In some recent books of larger scope it is pleasant to notice an increased appreciation of the high value of the work done by Dionysius in the field of literary criticism.

  • The following books, which are among the best of their kind, are intended to help the student to a better appreciation of literature and to a better knowledge of literary criticism.

  • His method however is an appeal to general probability rather than to literary criticism.

  • And free thought, in the form of literary criticism of the scriptures, had brought down the denunciation of the French church on Richard Simon.

  • But one is grieved that one must differ with him when it comes to literary criticism.

  • Shaw considered as literature of the first order work which makes a distinct original contribution to morality, even if such writing is literary criticism.

  • Aristotle's idea that metre is an unessential element in determining poetry has never really taken root in literary criticism.

  • When still quite a young man he had written the dialogue on oratory, which is one of the most interesting of Latin works on literary criticism; but throughout the reign of Domitian his pen was wholly laid aside.

  • It would pass beyond the province of literary criticism to discuss the reasons why that reform never took place, or, if it did, was confined to a circle too small to influence the downward movement of the Empire at large.

  • Is there any likelihood of an improvement in literary criticism--any chance of a return by the daily press to what the Reviews of the past gave and those of England and the Continent still give?

  • The pages of The Bookman, for example, are no longer confined to literary criticism, to essays on bookish topics, to gossip of author and publisher.

  • De Quincey: The Antigone of Sophocles (essay in "Literary Criticism").

  • De Quincey: Homer and the Homeridae (essay in "Literary Criticism").

  • To the present writer the ungenuineness of the fourth Gospel has for several years seemed as distinctly proved as any point in literary criticism can be.

  • In the "Old and the New Faith," published nearly ten years later, the main conclusions of Baur are adopted as the legitimate issue of literary criticism, though without attempt at formal reconciliation with his own original view.

  • It seems to the present writer nothing less than certain, as plain as any point of literary criticism can be, that the "Acts of the Apostles" is not to be relied on for information respecting the life and opinions of the apostle Paul.


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