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The Critical Game
Contributor(s): Macy, John Albert (Author)

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 ISBN: 1547089121     ISBN-13: 9781547089123
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $10.64  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2017
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- Literary Criticism | American - General
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.46 lbs) 150 pages
 
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" Criticism is one form of the game of writing. It differs from other forms only as whist differs from poker and as tennis differs from golf. The motives are the same, the exercise of the player's brain and muscles, and the entertainment of the spectators, from whom, if the player be successful, he derives profit, livelihood, applause, and fame. The function of criticism at the present time, and at all times, is the function of all literature, to be wise, witty, eloquent, instructive, humourous, original, graceful, beautiful, provocative, irritating, persuasive. That is, it must possess some of the many merits that can be found in any type of literature; it must in some way be good writing. There is no other sound principle to be discovered in the treatises on the art of criticism or in fine examples of the art. Whether Charles Lamb writes about Shakespeare or Christ's Hospital or ears is of relatively slight importance compared with the question whether in one essay or another Lamb is at one of his incomparable best moments of inspiration..."
 
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