“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, is in the first place 'literary', which is to say personal and passionate. It… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You sometimes hear people say, with a certain pride in their clerical resistance to the myth, that the nineteenth century really ended… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“his understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Discussions of the effects of serial publication of Victorian novels on their authors and readers1 usually draw attention to the author's peculiar… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Henry Fielding, a highly successful satiric dramatist until the introduction of censorship in 1737, began his novel-writing career with Shamela, a pastiche… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“The most celebrated American author of the twentieth century, Bellow objected during the first part of his career to being designated a… — Hana Wirth-Nesher Copy Share Image
“Most of the makers of the twentieth-century mind, figures such as Freud, Heisenberg, Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot, have in common an about-face… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it convincing independently of Freudian psychology are serious flaws in the… — John E. Stoll Copy Share Image
“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The character and the play of Hamlet are central to any discussion of Shakespeare's work. Hamlet has been described as melancholic and… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Hardy’s poetry is pre-eminently about ways of seeing. This is evident in the numerous angles of vision he employs in so many… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“I hope I have now made it clear why I thought it best, in speaking of the dissonances between fiction and reality… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf was two years older than Virginia, whom he had first met in 1901 in the rooms of her brother Thoby… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
