The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... critic is deservedly in- fluential and what he said in this article has been very generally repeated . In another moment of frankness I informed my readers that I was un- usually competent . One would think that except for this the critics ...
... critic is deservedly in- fluential and what he said in this article has been very generally repeated . In another moment of frankness I informed my readers that I was un- usually competent . One would think that except for this the critics ...
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... critics clamour for them . Now , the critics are of necessity the worst judges of plays . For consider , the play ... critic is there not to feel but to judge . He must hold aloof from the contagion that has captured the group and ...
... critics clamour for them . Now , the critics are of necessity the worst judges of plays . For consider , the play ... critic is there not to feel but to judge . He must hold aloof from the contagion that has captured the group and ...
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... critic to compensate himself for hu- miliations he has suffered in his early youth . Criticism affords him a means of regaining his self - esteem . Be- cause at school , unable to adapt himself to the stand- ards of that narrow world ...
... critic to compensate himself for hu- miliations he has suffered in his early youth . Criticism affords him a means of regaining his self - esteem . Be- cause at school , unable to adapt himself to the stand- ards of that narrow world ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe hard Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind ness never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth