Literary criticism Quote by Marco Mincoff

“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