Aids Quote by Anne Stevenson

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism…

— DH Lawrence

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.…

— Oscar Wilde

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of,…

— George Steiner

My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing…

— Christian Karlson Stead

One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but…

— Louis Menand

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

— Alistair MacLeod

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

— John Fante

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe

“Instead, I mean the formal aspect of a literary work that makes it possible for critics to describe a text as, say, “euphoric” or…

— Sianne Ngai