 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1916 - Страниц: 636
...question. ' Disinterestedness,' detachment, he tells us, is the first requisite in a literary critic — ' a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.' With this goes 'knowledge'; and no English critic is adequately equipped who does not... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1916 - Страниц: 626
...question. ' Disinterestedness/ detachment, he tells us, is the first requisite in a literary critic — ia disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world/ With this goes ' knowledge'; and no English critic is adequately equipped who does not... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1917 - Страниц: 332
...drubbing. Matthew Arnold in his essay on Criticism said wisely, for he was often wise : ' Criticism is disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.' Need a man long for a higher or better vocation ? But in his essay on Heine he accuses... | |
 | Clara Catherine Prince - 1919 - Страниц: 1220
...upon other artists' creations. There was the author of The Scholar Gypsy, who wrote that criticism was "a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." His definition was good as far as it went, but it stopped short of indicating the method... | |
 | Janet Elizabeth Courtney - 1920 - Страниц: 308
...perpetual dissatisfaction with anything that falls short of his ideal. Criticism may be defined as " a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in 1 the world." It is the business of the critical power " in all branches of knowledge. ... to see... | |
 | International Bee Research Association - 1923 - Страниц: 762
...to-day. AZ ABUSHADY, (Managing Director). March 1st, 1923. arena: litters to Clje Cfcttor Criticism is a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the...that is known and thought in the world. — MATTHEW IS THE SCENT OF ENGLISH FLOWERS LOST? SIR, — The lirrlif,ti>rrs' liceiiiil of August says that, comparatively... | |
 | Norbert Hardy Wallis - 1924 - Страниц: 244
...its function; and in this connection the definition of Matthew Arnold may be noticed, " Criticism is a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world ".2 The first adjective excludes all those judgments which are founded on personal (1)... | |
 | 1928 - Страниц: 772
...function, an equipment, a standard, and a method of its own." Matthew Arnold admirably defines it as "a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." We would suggest that true literary criticism is the judgment of a free and sensitive... | |
 | 1926 - Страниц: 746
...note that Eliot agrees with Mr. More as to the vital weakness in Arnold's definition of criticism as "a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind." The 'disinterested... | |
 | Edmund Henry Lacon Watson - 1927 - Страниц: 200
...protected from the inhumanity of their own species. Then, had not Matthew Arnold defined criticism as " a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world ? " Not a word, you observe, of the necessity for chastisement ! Yet it is surely essential... | |
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. 
