Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Charles H. Moore has an article in the October number of the "Atlantic Monthly" on "John Ruskin as an Art Critic." The article is mainly an analysis of Ruskin's theories as expressed in "Modern Painters," justifying Ruskin's general criticism...
...Gaston Deschamps has been engaged by the Cercle Francais to give the fourth annual series of lectures at Harvard this coming year. M. Deschamps is a well-known literary critic, and is at present on the staff of the Paris "Temps." He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale in Paris, and also studied a few years at the French School in Athens. For some time following he was actively engaged in exploring in Greece and Asia. He then returned to Paris, and has since given himself up to journalism. Although not more than forty-five years old, M. Deschamps...
...excellent story of the running down of an outlaw in the West, is told under the title of "A Lone Star Ranger," by W. Jones '00. The western tone of the article is enhanced by the rough colloquial style in which it is written. In "Charles Lamb as a Critic," W. Morrow '00, attempts to show Lamb's comparative powers of criticism in different works and subjects. "Before the Wind," a sketch by R. C. Bolling '00, is a vividly drawn picture of a storm...
...errors, they were considered eccentric, for they were beginning a serious and important literary movement. They did not merit the name of decadents, for their dream was to raise poetry to its more noble duties. The constant use of symbols has led to their being called symbolists. The celebrated critic Brunetiere was among the first to defend them and to explain their theories. The young writers had also a number of small reviews in which they defended their ideas. Among those that are still published are La Mercure de France and La Revue Blanche...
...Copeland will read in Sever 11 tonight at 8 o'clock. The selections will include passages from Johnson and from Boswell's "Life of Johnson," Goldsmith's "Retaliation," and "Haunch of Venison" and the second act of Sheridan's farce, "The Critic." The reading will be open to members of the University...