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Tag: Criticism

239. (Matthew Arnold)

Matthew Arnold suggests how a thoroughgoing Platonism might help us think through art, criticism, and more: “the application of ideas … More

Criticism, Matthew Arnold, plato, Samuel Johnson, William Empson

230. (William Empson)

In the blog posts lately, I’ve discussed literature as happening when an author gets a condition of judgment inside of … More

Aristotle, Criticism, William Empson

225. Suspending Words

Within David Runciman’s rapidly swirling, but nonetheless breezy, work of political science, How Democracy Ends is an ethical anxiety, and … More

Criticism, Politics

214. (T.S. Eliot)

When someone says that something possesses the quality of the literary, or refers to the literary or even artistic imagination, … More

Criticism, Donald Davie, T.S. Eliot, tact, the body

193. (Marius Bewley)

Marius Bewley is probably little remembered nowadays; a literary critic of the mid-century, whose critical principles were indebted mostly to … More

American Literature, Criticism, Hawthorne

191. (Samuel Johnson)

Samuel Johnson has never held me in magnetic thrall as he does so many of the critics I admire. He … More

Criticism, Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

187. (Charles Williams)

When anyone remembers Charles Williams these days, it is probably for one of two reasons. Either they know of Williams … More

Charles Williams, Criticism, Poetry, Shakespeare

171. (T.S. Eliot)

  Among Eliot’s staunchest and nimblest readers, Christopher Ricks was unrelenting in his 1978 attack on Eliot’s late essay, “What … More

Christopher Ricks, Criticism, Elizabethan Drama, Geoffrey Hill, Jacobean Drama, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot

166. (Christopher Ricks)

Ricks’ idiosyncratic, essentially inimitable (though it is irresistible, and can be valuable, to imitate its more superficial mannerisms and habits) … More

Christopher Ricks, Criticism

156. (Hannah Ginsborg)

My limited experience reading contemporary philosophers has convinced me that Wittgenstein, Kant, and Aristotle need to be read alongside one … More

aesthetics, Criticism, John McDowell, Kant, philosophy, Sebastian Rödl

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