Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Sainte Beuve was the foremost engineer in literature. He gave a new impulse to criticism and brought it up to a place of vital importance. In 1828, he published his first formal contribution to literature in the form of a criticism, the aim being to show that the early poets were the ancestors of the romanticists. In the course of the next ten years he published three volumes of poetry. Though the verses were well written and often of a religious turn of mind they did not meet with the success he had anticipated. He realized that he was intended...
...essays. In his poems he sometimes lacks breadth and opinion, and often they have too much of a prose quality. As a historian he showed considerable power in his Porte Royale, an article on the religious movement of the seventeenth century. But he was first and last a critic. With him the writer was regarded as an individual, and he thought the first duty of the critic was to know him. It was an excellent method, but it was one apt to give, instead of criticism, too many incidents of the author. In general tone his criticisms are happy...
...judging Byron it is impossible to separate his personal from his literary character. And yet a critic's view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards. His mother, a lioness of a woman, was deserted by her husband, and left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems...
...Chief Justice Jay, his great-grandfather. Mr. Pellew was for some time the New York correspondent of the Boston Journal. About fifteen months ago he became a member of the editorial staff of the Sun. He was also known as a magazine writer, and contributed many articles to the Critic. He was preparing at the time of his death to take a place on the staff of the Cosmopolitan. He belonged to the University Club, the Players' Club, and was a member of the Tammany General Committee...
...Annexation would introduce serious political, social, and economic difficulties. - (a) Canadian Religious troubles; Forum X, 323; No. Amer. Rev., vol. 148. p. 667; Arena, vol. II. - (b) Race problems; Forum VI: 458. - (c) Difference in language; Critic VII: 165. - (d) Political system is different from ours; Forum VI, 458. - (e) Large and increasing debt; Statesman's Year Book...