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Essays in Criticism - Page 6
by Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 440 pages
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Essays: Including Essays in Criticism, 1865, On Translating Homer (with F. W ...

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1914 - 502 pages
...: | the grand work of literaryi/ ^ genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis A and discovery > its gift lies in the faculty of being...effective and attractive combinations, — making 10 beautiful works with them, in short. But it must have the atmosphere, it must find itself amidst...
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The Divine Element in Art and Literature

William Lawrence Schroeder - Art - 1916 - 288 pages
...Arnold, in The Function of Criticism, say that ' the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its...presenting them in the most effective and attractive combination — making beautiful works with them, in short.' For it is the work of creative genius...
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Materials for the Study of English Literature and Composition: Selections ...

Frank Aydelotte - English language - 1916 - 444 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher. The grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its...itself in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, preseating them in the most effective and attractive combinations, — making beautiful works with...
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Course of Study in Junior High School English ...

Neodesha, Kansas. Board of education - 1918 - 48 pages
...and bard. Mathew Arnold says: "The grand work of a literary genius consists in the faculty of being inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas — and of dealing divinely with these ideas " To help the child interpret the world of thought and...
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The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-century Literature: Representative Prose ...

Robert Emmons Rogers - English literature - 1921 - 352 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher; the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its...beautiful works with them, in short. But it must have the atmosphere, it must find itself amidst the order of ideas, in order to work freely; and these it is...
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The Catholic Spirit in Modern English Literature

George Nauman Shuster - American literature - 1922 - 402 pages
...Nevertheless, to revert once more to the keen statement of Matthew Arnold, the gift of literary genius "lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere." Art is always, secondarily at least, the product of an artistic society. The masters of mediaeval beauty...
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William Dean Howells: A Critical Study

Delmar Gross Cooke - American literature - 1922 - 306 pages
...Arnold speaks so beautifully and so confidently, ideas with which the creative genius may deal divinely, "presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations, making beautiful works with them," 3 criticism, we find, "has condemned whatever was, from time to time, fresh and vital in literature;...
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An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Shewing the Main Stream of English ...

Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher; the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its gift lies in the faculty cf being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritu.il atmosphere, by a certain order of...
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The Principles of Criticism: An Introduction to the Study of Literature

William Basil Worsfold - Criticism - 1923 - 276 pages
...which is helpful to the artist is synthetic. ' The grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its...presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinatious — making beautiful works with them, in short.' 2 • And, therefore, the present age...
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Lectures and Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1962 - 598 pages
...is rather the business of the philosopher. The grand work of litera1y genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its...certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by 5 a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting...
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