Literary criticism Quote by John E. Stoll

“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and…

— Frank Kermode

“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a tyrant; a…

— Ronald Carter

“If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in…

— Witold Gombrowicz

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many…

— Bill Vaughan

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

— Joseph Joubert

“Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian…

— Ian Gregor

“By the close of the nineteenth century her studies with her father were being supplemented by tuition in the classics from Dr Warr of…

— Jane Goldman

“I tossed up whether I'd see [the critic] or not: I knew too well the pompous phrases of his article, the buried significance he…

— Graham Greene

“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded by Carrington’s…

— Jane Goldman

“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if one wanted…

— Frank Kermode

“In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close…

— Jane Goldman

“Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range of positions…

— Jane Goldman