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...Moscow. In some humorous quotations from a contemporary the lecturer showed the sort of philosophical intoxication in which the younger generation of the time lived. A prominent part in this movement which prepared the literary soil from which the great Russian novelists were to arise belongs to the critic Belinsky...
...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...