Literary criticism Quote by C.S. Lewis

“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came to me…

— Ada Palmer

“The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but…

— Étienne Gilson

“It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.”

— Kevin Hearne

“The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all…

— Jeremy Hawthorn

“Compare, for example, seventeenth century writers with those of the eighteenth. What a difference in tone and gait! The former, under a veneer of…

— Edouard Berth

“Though they are now largely silent, the voices from the seventeenth century still speak to us from the innumerable texts and images we are…

— Peter H. Wilson

“There are, I know, those who prefer not to go beyond the impression, however accidental, which an old work makes on a mind that…

— C.S. Lewis

“I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a…

— Ayad Akhtar

“The medieval period based its scriptural exegesis upon the Vulgate translation of the Bible. There was no authorized version of this text, despite the…

— Alister E. McGrath

“The English departments were clogged with worthy but outworn and backwardlooking scholars whose tastes in the moderns were most often superficial, random, and vulgar.…

— Robert Lowell

“I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that…

— Chinua Achebe

“The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.”

— Roger Shattuck