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... critic , M. Lemaître , published a series of lectures on Racine , in which the highest note of unqualified panegyric sounded uninterruptedly from beginning to end . The contrast is remarkable , and the conflicting criticisms seem to ...
... critic , M. Lemaître , published a series of lectures on Racine , in which the highest note of unqualified panegyric sounded uninterruptedly from beginning to end . The contrast is remarkable , and the conflicting criticisms seem to ...
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... criticism was clearly unexceptionable , upon one condition— that the critic was quite certain what the canons of poetry were ; but the moment that it became obvious that the only way of arriving at a conclusion upon the subject was by ...
... criticism was clearly unexceptionable , upon one condition— that the critic was quite certain what the canons of poetry were ; but the moment that it became obvious that the only way of arriving at a conclusion upon the subject was by ...
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... criticism . If we look at its criticism of literature alone , was there ever a time when the critic's functions were more grievously and shamelessly mishandled ? When Dryden or Johnson wrote of literature , they wrote of it as an art ...
... criticism . If we look at its criticism of literature alone , was there ever a time when the critic's functions were more grievously and shamelessly mishandled ? When Dryden or Johnson wrote of literature , they wrote of it as an art ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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