...all creativity in literature and criticism. "The grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its...by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere ... it must find itself amidst the order of ideas, in order to work freely. ... To act is so easy,...

...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...

...ideas" — that is philosophy's business. In this sense, literary creation is a "work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its...a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them."1 By contrast, criticism is directly involved in discovering or creating new ideas, because it...

...grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery;... dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them...in the most effective and attractive combinations" ("Function" 26i). In other words, criticism and literature combined are themselves the best inspectors....

...critic were not only a prophetic herald but in some sense a muse: significantly passive, the poet's "gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired...spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas," which order it is the critic's work to create (3:160). Criticism first. This is the place, too, where...

...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...by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere. (28) Literature "must have" this "atmosphere," and some atmospheres are more sustaining than others:...

...Function of Criticism at the Present Time": The grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery; its...combinations, — making beautiful works with them, in short. (133) Lucilla's admirable skill for combining interior design and people to create a pleasing social...

...liberal, Matthew Arnold, for example, would declare in 1865 that the special gift of literary genius "lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by...certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them." Such genius, Arnold warned, "must have the atmosphere, it must find itself amidst the order of ideas,...

...Time." "The grand work of literary genius," says Arnold, "is a work of synthesis and exposition ... its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired...itself in them; of dealing divinely with these ideas. . . . But it must have the atmosphere, it must find itself amidst the order of ideas, in order to work...

...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...