American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, Volume 2Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott C. Scribner's Sons, 1949 |
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... critic , the impulse which makes a critic of him instead of , say , a politician , or a stockbroker , is pedagogical -that he writes because he is possessed by a passion to advance the enlightenment , to put down error and wrong , to ...
... critic , the impulse which makes a critic of him instead of , say , a politician , or a stockbroker , is pedagogical -that he writes because he is possessed by a passion to advance the enlightenment , to put down error and wrong , to ...
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... critic is certainly not to make converts . He must know that very few of the persons who are susceptible to conversion are worth converting . Their minds are intrinsically flabby and parasitical , and it is certainly not sound sport to ...
... critic is certainly not to make converts . He must know that very few of the persons who are susceptible to conversion are worth converting . Their minds are intrinsically flabby and parasitical , and it is certainly not sound sport to ...
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... critics devote themselves to pointing out what they conceive to be my errors , both of fact and of taste . Well , I cannot recall a case in which any suggestion offered by a constructive critic has helped me in the slightest , or even ...
... critics devote themselves to pointing out what they conceive to be my errors , both of fact and of taste . Well , I cannot recall a case in which any suggestion offered by a constructive critic has helped me in the slightest , or even ...
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AMERICAN LITERATURE 18601900 | 1 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 15 |
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