Dryden: By George Saintsbury
Dryden: By George Saintsbury
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Yet his critical remarks on some English poets, not borrowed from his friends, but constructed from their remarks, as a clever counsel would construct a pleading out of the infor- mation furnished him, are extraordinarily acute and accu- rate. The relish for literary discussion which Saint Evre- mond shows was no peculiarity of his, though he had it in super-eminent measure. It was fashionable in France, and he helped to make it fashionable in England.
I have seen this style of criticism dismis...sed contempt- uously as '' trifling ;" but this is only an instance of the strange power of reaction. Because for many years the plan of criticising by rule and line was almost exclusively pursued, and, as happens in the case of almost all exclusive Digitized by Google Ti.] LATER DRAMAS AND PROSE WORKS. 126 pursuits, was followed too far, it seems to some people nowadays, that criticism ought to be confined to the ex- pression, in more or less elegant language, of the feelings of admiration or dislike which the subject criticised may excite in the critic's mind.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Yet his critical remarks on some English poets, not borrowed from his friends, but constructed from their remarks, as a clever counsel would construct a pleading out of the infor- mation furnished him, are extraordinarily acute and accu- rate. The relish for literary discussion which Saint Evre- mond shows was no peculiarity of his, though he had it in super-eminent measure. It was fashionable in France, and he helped to make it fashionable in England.
I have seen this style of criticism dismis...sed contempt- uously as '' trifling ;" but this is only an instance of the strange power of reaction. Because for many years the plan of criticising by rule and line was almost exclusively pursued, and, as happens in the case of almost all exclusive Digitized by Google Ti.] LATER DRAMAS AND PROSE WORKS. 126 pursuits, was followed too far, it seems to some people nowadays, that criticism ought to be confined to the ex- pression, in more or less elegant language, of the feelings of admiration or dislike which the subject criticised may excite in the critic's mind.
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