...an author, to be tested by them. Criticism he defines to be " a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That with which the literary censor has specially to do, is the " criticism of life." If we ask what, in...

...an author, to be tested by themT) Criticism he defines to be " a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That with which the literary censor has specially to do, is the " criticism of life." If we ask what, in...

...of criticism at the present time? " he asks, and answers— " A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That is a wide warrant. The writer who exercises his critical function under it, however, is plainly a reformer...

...of criticism at the present time ? " he asks, and answers — "A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That is a wide warrant. The writer who exercises his critical function under it, however, is plainly a reformer...

...looking at things. He aimed to know the best ; the aim of every one must be, he says, " to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That is the keynote of his criticism. Be perpetually dissatisfied with all that falls short of a high and perfect...

..."disinterested," that it should be "in able and honest hands," that it should "endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world," that "the critic should possess ... a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the...

...best, must enter into the determining of its permanent value. When Matthew Arnold defined criticism as a "disinterested endeavor to learn and to propagate the best that is known and thonght in the world." he broadened, beyond previous estimate, the field of approach to literature....

...of criticism at the present time?" he asks, and answers 4- "A disinterested endeavor to, learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." |That is a wide warrant. The writer who exercises his critical function under it, however, is plainly a reformer...

...criticism at the present time?" he asks, and 73 answers — "A disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." That is a wide warrant. The writer who exercises his critical function under it, however, is plainly a reformer...

..."disinterested," that it should be "in able and honest hands," that it should "endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world," that "the critic should possess ... a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the...