Literary Criticism: An Introductory ReaderLionel Trilling |
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... judge of the lines which you were reciting from Homer , you or the charioteer ? Ion . The charioteer . Soc . Why , yes , because you are a rhapsode and not a charioteer . Ion . Yes . Soc . And the art of the rhapsode is different from ...
... judge of the lines which you were reciting from Homer , you or the charioteer ? Ion . The charioteer . Soc . Why , yes , because you are a rhapsode and not a charioteer . Ion . Yes . Soc . And the art of the rhapsode is different from ...
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... judge whether the characters be truly or falsely drawn in a tragedy ; for if there be no manners appearing in the characters , no concernment for the persons can be raised ; no pity or horror can be moved , but by vice or virtue ...
... judge whether the characters be truly or falsely drawn in a tragedy ; for if there be no manners appearing in the characters , no concernment for the persons can be raised ; no pity or horror can be moved , but by vice or virtue ...
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... judge ? The critic , the receiver , however stupid or ignorant , must judge for himself . The only really vicious criticism is the academic criticism of those who make the grand abnegation , who refuse to say what they think , if they ...
... judge ? The critic , the receiver , however stupid or ignorant , must judge for himself . The only really vicious criticism is the academic criticism of those who make the grand abnegation , who refuse to say what they think , if they ...
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action admiration Aeschylus appear Aristotle artist audience beautiful called causes century character Comedy composition Cowley criticism culture Dante Alighieri degree delight diction distinction divine dramatic Dryden effect emotion English Epic poetry Euripides excellence excite existence expression feelings genius give Glaucon Hamlet heaven Hesiod Homer human idea Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden judge judgment kind knowledge language less literary literature lyric Lyrical Ballads manner means metaphors metre Milton mind mode moral nature never object Odysseus Oedipus Paradise Lost passage passions perfect perhaps persons philosophical pity Plato play pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic Polygnotus praise principle produced propriety prose reader reason rhapsode rhyme scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Socrates Sophocles soul speak spirit style T. S. Eliot theory things thought tion Tragedy true truth verse virtue whole words Wordsworth writing