Word: disesteem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of the disesteem which for years dull minds visited upon him was the result of his novel writing, which was not first rate. Though his mind was essentially creative, it worked less freely through his imagination and sympathy than through his critical faculty. Whereas his novels were mainly empty shells of form, his volume on English Composition was full of meat, probably the most philosophic and stimulating work on this much be-written subject. His critical biography of Shakespeare was by turns brilliantly original and deficient in imaginative feeling. In his later years his methods sobered somewhat, his interests...