...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...

...of the function of criticism, both in general and in relation to his own age. Criticism, he says, is "a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." "It is the business of the critical power in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy,...

...conceived it to be his duty as a critic of literature to bring it out into the open in the life of society. "A disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas " — that is the keynote to...

...though Matthew Arnold was primarily speaking of literary criticism, I still like the way he defined criticism, "... a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought . . ." By disinterested he meant unbiased, nonpartisan. It is certainly my desire to be nonpartisan,...

...defined culture as 'the best that is known and thought in the world', had defined the critic's task as 'a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world'. That cosmopolitan, humanist stance had remained influential in British criticism. If...

...late nineteenth-century thinkers. Cortissoz agreed with Arnold's basic observation that criticism was "a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.''By best, Arnold meant ideas derived from the ancients which had proved through endurance...

...Approaches, and Emerging Options / am bound by my own definition of criticism: an unbiased endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. — Matthew Arnold The ultimate purpose of reading is to enhance schema. Reading is an act of culling and synthesizing...

...expect you to address yourself. I am sorry for it, for I am afraid I must disappoint these expectations. I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested...learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. How much of current English literature comes into this "best that is known and thought...

...civilisation" and should do more by creating syllabuses out of texts which embodied what Arnold had called a "disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world" [Super 3:283]. As an antidote to gay, Green, or lesbian syllabuses, as a conservative...

...observes that Matthew Arnold exercised a bad influence on English criticism; in defining criticism as 'a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world', Arnold made it catholic and sympathetic, 'but a little too literary and too artificial'....