Literary Criticism | A Short History (PB 2026)

It is not likely that a person who entertains even a modest prejudice against the kind of history writing which appears in this book will have his mind changed by introductory apologetics. Still some preliminary advertisements of aims may be only fair- and many even by generally helpful to a receptive reading. The literary historian will always do well to nurse a certain scepticism about the thoroughness with which he may be penetrating the secret of his documents. But then he has to worry too about an opposite danger of being merely and overly sceptical. There are techniques of caution and neutrality which put the historian somewhat in the position of the student who, having his difficulties with a Latin or German reading examination, is content to put down a translation that does not make sense. He writes as if he is not convinced that the foreign language does make sense. This book both grows out of and illustrates and contributes to a certain distinct point of view. In fact it may reasonably be termed 'An Argumentative History of Literary Argument .. .’

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