Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... critics their feeling of dissatisfaction . People often think themselves displeased with a work of art when , in fact , they are displeased with the man who created it . Critics , most of them , are moralists who judge , first of all ...
... critics their feeling of dissatisfaction . People often think themselves displeased with a work of art when , in fact , they are displeased with the man who created it . Critics , most of them , are moralists who judge , first of all ...
Page 155
... critic represents one too . How then can he help being biased for or against his subject , according as how far he sympathises with him ? It must have been almost impossible forty years ago for an anti - imperialist to be fair to ...
... critic represents one too . How then can he help being biased for or against his subject , according as how far he sympathises with him ? It must have been almost impossible forty years ago for an anti - imperialist to be fair to ...
Page 156
... critic ever can . The con- temporary critic is in the position of a man writing a book about his father . Clearly he cannot expect to be unbiased about him , nor to see him in true perspective with the rest of mankind . On the other ...
... critic ever can . The con- temporary critic is in the position of a man writing a book about his father . Clearly he cannot expect to be unbiased about him , nor to see him in true perspective with the rest of mankind . On the other ...
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