The Elian Miscellany: A Charles Lamb AnthologyS. M. Rich H. Joseph, 1931 - 363 pages |
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... critics . One may , without any disparagement of the criticism which informs , conclude that the criticism which transports is the higher kind , because it is rather artistic than intellec- tual , depending more than the other on the ...
... critics . One may , without any disparagement of the criticism which informs , conclude that the criticism which transports is the higher kind , because it is rather artistic than intellec- tual , depending more than the other on the ...
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... critic ; and if one were to judge Lamb as any kind of critic other than the creative , the claim would be preposterous . But the fact is that the bulk of criticism that is both a high work of art in itself and tells the truth about what ...
... critic ; and if one were to judge Lamb as any kind of critic other than the creative , the claim would be preposterous . But the fact is that the bulk of criticism that is both a high work of art in itself and tells the truth about what ...
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... criticism of authors that exists in English , Lamb's might well figure the most largely in that slender anthology . I may be able to make my plea for Lamb's high position appear more reasonable , if I illustrate what I mean by ...
... criticism of authors that exists in English , Lamb's might well figure the most largely in that slender anthology . I may be able to make my plea for Lamb's high position appear more reasonable , if I illustrate what I mean by ...
Contents
First Meeting with His Biographer | 21 |
An AfterDinner | 28 |
Unrecalled Memories | 34 |
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