Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...critic, he was insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth...
...graduated in 1874, and then, after a two years' course as a graduate student, received the degree of LL. B. He was the seventh Sewall in a direct line to receive a degree from Harvard. Mr. Sewall was a man of marked literary tastes. He was a fine critic. One of the organizers of the Contemporary Club of Indianapolis, he served for four years as its secretary. Among Mr. Sewall's more noted works were a review of "Marie Bashkirtseff" and a history of the Indianapolis Literary Club...
...Coleridge as a literary critic...
...Lamb as a dramatic critic...
...central character of the piece is Argan, a middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...