The Critical Muse: Selected Literary CriticismPenguin Books, 1987 - 623 páginas 'The critic, in his conception, was not the narrow lawgiver or the rigid censor that he is often assumed to be; he was the student, the inquirer, the interpreter, the taker of notes, the active, restless commentator...' James's words on Sainte-Beuve could very easily be applied to himself. The pleasures of his own criticism - wit and urbanity, metaphorical artistry, his way of stalking and teasing out his subject - always lift his essays from the merely instructive to the delightful. |
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Introduction | 1 |
On Sir Walter Scott 1864 | 20 |
On characterization and purple prose 1865 | 23 |
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