Word: criticized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Before closing I wish to speak a few words on the controversy whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote the plays ascribed to the latter. A well-known critic says that it is extremely improbable that Shakespeare wrote the plays, since not a single scrap of his writing has come down to us. This argument also holds good of Bacon for there is no writing of his to show that he was the author of the plays. If we stick to the argument we shall have Shakespeare, while the critic does not even save his Bacon...
...Humphrey Ward delivered the first of his lectures on English art before a large audience in Sanders Theatre last evening. Professor Norton in a few appropriate words introduced him. Mr. Ward is well-known as art critic of the London Times and by his collection of the English poets...
...Eighteenth Century." This is the first of a series of four lectures which Mr. Ward will give on the subject. He is a most interesting speaker and a thorough master of his subject. Mr. Ward is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and at present he is the art critic of the London Times. He has edited several works of English literature, his edition of the "English Poets" being considered the standard edition. Mr. Ward has been lecturing at Princeton, Philadelphia and New York, where it is his intention to return after his course of lectures here...
...only to sing of the beautiful things of tragedy and pathos, without trying to teach; while in his prose he is ever intent upon teaching. In his essays his great aim is to reform the Philistine. Another guise in which Matthew Arnold appears to us is as the gentle critic of pure literature; the reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character he wrote his essay on Keats, which gives such pleasure to lovers of Keats, and his essay on Shelley, which gives less pleasure to the friends of Shelley. Arnold...
...working life he was a Fellow, or a resident, at Oxford, and it is there we like best to think of him. Pater was in no way a reformer. He cared as much for the past as Matthew Arnold and Henry James did for the present. As a critic Pater dwelt most fondly upon those who were dead. In a little book of criticisms, called "Appreciations," we find him coming nearer the present. In this book he speaks of people only, or almost only, to praise them. In spite of Pater's urbanity, we are sometimes conscious of a faint...