Paul Elmer More (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

Synopsis

CRITICISM has for some time been a distinctive category of American literature. Its dependence upon the primary genres and the related fact of its not being in itself a re-creation of primary experience will keep it from becoming what the novel became in nineteenth-century England and Russia or what the drama became in Elizabethan England; but criticism has been practiced in the United States in the twentieth century on an unprecedented scale.

Critics have heretofore usually been something else besides, and that something else has usually taken their major effort; one of the peculiarities of recent American literature is the sizeable body of writers for whom criticism has been a life's work.

Among the first of these, in achievement as well as in time, is Paul Elmer More. He is not, let me add immediately, so important a critic as others we might name; his criticism has not changed our conception of what literature is, as the criticism of Coleridge or of T. S. Eliot has. More is a critic of another sort; like Lewis Mumford or F. O. Matthiessen, he reads the literature of the past to see what it means to him and to his age, and in doing so discovers new meanings for us all.

Copyright:

1996

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

ISBN-13:

9780808402404

Publisher:

N C U P, Incorporated

Date of Addition:

11/26/18

Copyrighted By:

Twayne Publishers, Inc.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs

Submitted By:

Daproim Africa

Proofread By:

Daproim Africa

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.