item: #1 of 12
          id: 11251
      author: None
       title: Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by R. Brimley Johnson
        date: None
       words: 191387
      flesch: 59
     summary: The devil has the ministers and professors of Scotland, now in a sive, and O as he sifts, and O as he riddles, and O as he rattles, and O the chaff he gets; And I fear there be more chaff nor there be good corn, and that will be found among us or all be done: but the _soul-confirmed_ man leaves ever the devil at two more, and he has ay the matter gadged, and leaves ay the devil in the lee side,--Sirs O work in the day of the cross. Great men, on whom she had gazed at a distance with humble reverence, addressed her with admiration, tempered by the tenderness due to her sex and age. Burke, Windham, Gibbon, Reynolds, Sheridan, were among her most ardent eulogists.
    keywords: account; author; beauty; book; case; character; church; class; coleridge; common; composition; country; course; criticism; darwin; day; days; death; degree; doubt; edinburgh; effect; england; english; eyes; fact; fair; feeling; fine; force; form; friend; general; genius; god; good; half; hand; having; heart; history; human; hunt; idea; imagination; interest; jane; johnson; judgment; keats; kind; knowledge; lady; language; law; leigh; life; light; literature; little; london; lord; love; macaulay; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; miss; moral; mrs; nature; new; notice; novel; object; opinion; order; original; pages; people; person; place; poem; poetical; poetry; poets; point; poor; pope; power; present; principles; public; question; readers; reason; religion; review; school; second; self; sense; set; shakespeare; sir; society; sort; southey; species; spirit; state; style; subject; taste; tennyson; theory; thing; thought; time; truth; use; volume; way; woman; words; wordsworth; work; world; writer; years
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 13408
      author: Spence, Edward Fordham
       title: Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
        date: None
       words: 88593
      flesch: 62
     summary: Dick Turpin_ plays are said to have fired many youths with a desire to become romantic criminals, and even caused them to make efforts to carry out their desires. He has found out the reason why French plays are better than English, is able to put his finger on the real difference which exists between French plays and English, he now knows why many more plays are successfully adapted from French into English than _vice versa_.
    keywords: acting; actor; actresses; art; audience; author; case; character; comedy; course; criticism; critics; deal; difficulty; doubt; drama; dramatist; effect; end; english; fact; french; good; half; hand; house; idea; kind; ladies; laughter; life; london; love; managers; matter; means; modern; money; music; night; number; opinion; order; parts; people; performance; phrase; piece; play; players; point; present; public; question; real; remarks; rule; sense; shakespeare; stage; story; theatre; things; time; truth; use; view; way; work; years
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 13764
      author: Lynd, Robert
       title: The Art of Letters
        date: None
       words: 82308
      flesch: 71
     summary: In _Grace Abounding_ man is a trembling criminal. If we turn back to _The Undertaking_, however, we find Donne boasting once more of the miraculous purity of a love which it would be useless to communicate to other men, since, there being no other mistress to love in the same kind, they would love but as before.
    keywords: age; art; author; beauty; book; century; coleridge; cowper; criticism; day; donne; doubt; england; english; fact; genius; god; good; gosse; hand; human; imagination; kind; lady; letters; life; lines; literature; love; man; men; meredith; mind; music; nature; new; order; people; pepys; place; pleasure; poem; poetry; poets; pope; praise; read; review; right; sense; shakespeare; shelley; sort; soul; spirit; story; swift; things; thought; time; truth; verse; walpole; war; way; whibley; words; wordsworth; work; world; writers; writing; years; young
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 14528
      author: Cobb, Samuel
       title: Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry From Poems On Several Occasions (1707)
        date: None
       words: 9206
      flesch: 85
     summary: Cooper's Hill_ shall, like _Parnassus_, stand, And _Denham_ reign, the _ Since Your Departure, Affairs have had a surprizing Turn every where, and particularly in_ Italy; _which Success of our Armies and Allies abroad, have given a manifest Proof of our wise Counsels at home.--Parties still run between_ High _and_ Low.
    keywords: eyes; homer; mind; muse; nature; new; o'er; poet; poetry; praise; rules; song; soul; sung; tho; thought; thro; thy; verse; way; world
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 14637
      author: Murry, John Middleton
       title: Aspects of Literature
        date: None
       words: 53272
      flesch: 68
     summary: He says to himself: Either he is at bottom of the same nature as other men or he is different. It was instinct which guided him into a sequestered path, which ran equably by the side of the road of alternate exaltation and catastrophe which other men of equal genius must travel.
    keywords: art; artist; book; butler; coleridge; criticism; day; end; english; experience; fact; far; feel; generation; good; hardy; heart; human; ideal; keats; kind; language; life; literary; love; man; masefield; men; method; mind; moment; mr hardy; poem; poetry; poets; present; prose; quality; read; ronsard; sense; shakespeare; soul; tchehov; things; thought; time; truth; vision; way; words; work; world; years; æsthetic
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 3377
      author: Howells, William Dean
       title: Criticism and Fiction
        date: None
       words: 28935
      flesch: 55
     summary: The author neglected or overlooked need not despair for that reason, if he will reflect that criticism can neither make nor unmake authors; that there have not been greater books since criticism became an art than there were before; that in fact the greatest books seem to have come much earlier. But the Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, written as simply and straightforwardly as his battles were fought, couched in the most unpretentious phrase, with never a touch of grandiosity or attitudinizing, familiar, homely in style, form a great piece of literature, because great literature is nothing more nor less than the clear expression of minds that have some thing great in them, whether religion, or beauty, or deep experience.
    keywords: american; art; author; book; christmas; criticism; day; english; fact; fiction; good; human; life; literature; man; men; nature; new; novel; novelist; people; sort; story; things; time; truth; work; world
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 3379
      author: Howells, William Dean
       title: Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
        date: None
       words: 53108
      flesch: 65
     summary: He wished to be in good time, so as to save the child from anxiety about his coming; but he promised himself to stop, going back, and glut his sensibility in a leisurely study of the scene. But the driver remembered, and checked his horses in good time; and there were the men still, but in even greater number than before, stretching farther up Broadway and farther out along the side street.
    keywords: air; american; art; author; beauty; case; circus; cold; country; course; day; effect; england; fact; friend; good; half; hamlet; high; home; hope; house; kind; lady; left; life; look; man; men; mind; new; night; past; people; place; pleasure; politics; public; question; river; sense; sort; summer; things; thought; time; way; white; wish; women; work; world; years; york
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 36245
      author: Spingarn, Joel Elias
       title: A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism
        date: None
       words: 84221
      flesch: 65
     summary: Du Bellay, J. _Oeuvres Choisies_, publiées par L. Becq de Fouquières. [472] That is, the highest form of _human_ wisdom, for Sidney, as a Christian philosopher, naturally leaves revealed religion out of the discussion.
    keywords: = =; action; aristotle; art; beauty; bellay; castelvetro; century; character; classical; classicism; comedy; conception; criticism; critics; defence; delight; drama; end; english; epic; expression; fact; far; form; france; french; function; general; giraldi; good; great; greek; history; horace; human; ibid; ideal; iii; imitation; influence; italian; italy; jonson; language; laws; life; literature; men; minturno; modern; moral; nature; period; philosophy; place; pléiade; poem; poetics; poetry; poets; reason; renaissance; romantic; ronsard; rules; scaliger; second; sense; sidney; spirit; tasso; theory; things; time; tragedy; unity; use; verse; works; writers; years; | |
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 6081
      author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
       title: Biographia Literaria
        date: None
       words: 139966
      flesch: 56
     summary: But Milton-- D. Aye Milton, indeed!--but do not Dr. Johnson and other great men tell us, that nobody now reads Milton but as a task? The one reminds me of an odd passage in Drayton's IDEAS As other men, so I myself do muse, Why in this sort I wrest invention so; And why these giddy metaphors I use, Leaving the path the greater part do go; I will resolve you: I am lunatic!
    keywords: absolute; act; answer; association; attention; author; books; cause; chapter; character; characteristic; child; church; common; consciousness; contrary; conversation; country; day; degree; diction; difference; distinction; effect; english; equal; existence; experience; eye; eyes; fact; fancy; feelings; following; footnote; form; french; friend; general; genius; german; god; good; great; greek; ground; half; hand; having; head; heart; hope; house; human; idea; images; imagination; instance; interest; judgment; kind; knowledge; language; law; length; life; light; lines; love; man; matter; meaning; means; men; metre; milton; mind; moral; morning; motion; nature; non; number; object; order; original; page; parts; passage; person; philosophy; place; pleasure; poems; poet; poetic; poetry; point; power; present; principles; proof; prose; public; purpose; question; reader; reason; result; school; science; second; self; sense; shakespeare; sir; sort; soul; spirit; state; style; subject; system; taste; theory; things; thought; time; truth; understanding; way; words; wordsworth; work; world; writer; writings; years; young
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 6106
      author: Canby, Henry Seidel
       title: Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
        date: None
       words: 71777
      flesch: 64
     summary: If the Russian authors could write American stories I believe that their work would be more truly popular than what we are now getting. We shall have less sentimentality in American literature when our accumulated store of idealism disappears in a laxer generation; or when it finds due vent in a more responsible, less narrow, less monotonously prosperous life than is lived by the average reader of fiction in America.
    keywords: american; american literature; art; author; books; century; conrad; course; criticism; critics; day; desire; england; english; experience; fact; fiction; form; general; generation; good; history; human; kind; life; literary; literature; magazine; man; means; men; mind; moral; nature; new; novel; poetry; popularity; prose; public; read; readers; reading; real; reviewer; reviewing; sense; sentiment; short; stories; story; taste; thought; time; tradition; truth; war; way; words; work; world; writers; writing; youth
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 6320
      author: Vaughan, Charles Edwyn
       title: English literary criticism
        date: None
       words: 98927
      flesch: 63
     summary: Among the Romans a poet was called _vates_, which is as much as a diviner, fore-seer, or prophet, as by his conjoined words _vaticinium_ and _vaticinari_ is manifest: so heavenly a title did that excellent people bestow upon this heart-ravishing knowledge. Both of them built on the inventions of other men; yet since Chaucer had something of his own, as the _Wife of Bath's Tale, The Cock and the Fox_, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his.
    keywords: action; age; art; beauty; carlyle; century; character; chaucer; criticism; critics; delight; doth; drama; dryden; end; english; footnote; form; general; genius; good; hand; hath; heart; history; homer; human; imagination; johnson; kind; knowledge; language; life; literature; love; man; manner; matter; men; method; milton; mind; modern; moral; nature; object; passion; place; pleasure; poem; poesy; poetical; poetry; poets; power; present; prose; reason; rhyme; right; second; sense; set; shakespeare; sidney; soul; spirit; subject; things; thought; time; truth; verse; virgil; virtue; way; wit; words; work; world; writers; years
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 7409
      author: Pope, Alexander
       title: An Essay on Criticism
        date: None
       words: 9196
      flesch: 73
     summary: [Lines 645, 646: See note on line 138.] [Line 648: The Maeonian star.--Homer, supposed by some to have been born in Maeonia, a part of Lydia in Asia Minor, and whose poems were the chief subject of Aristotle's criticism.] As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit For works may have more wit than does them good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
    keywords: art; criticism; critics; fools; judgment; learning; line; muse; nature; poet; pope; praise; rules; sense; time; tis; wit; wits
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