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Jeffrey had detected the Greek element before it had become a critical commonplace. Scott expressed the doubt whether Jeffrey had 3. Ny feeling of poetic genius, and Scott was rarely unjust. But the man who wrote thus about Keats was certainly not wholly destitute of such feeling. The just criticism and the skilful choice of extracts in the essay on ForcTs Dramatic Works support the same conclusion.
As Macaulay said of himself that he was nothing if not historical, so it may be said of Jeffrey ...that he is nothing if not critical. Yet it must be added that a considerable part of the value of the essays lies in remarks suggested by a vigorous understanding and a wide experience of the world on points not strictly literary. It is this which makes him pronounce Burns's belief " in the dispensing power of genius and social feeling, in all matters of morality and common sense " his leading vice. And from the same source came the admirable 204 THE ENGLISH ESSAY AND ESSAYISTS J, ; remarks on courage in the essay on Byron's Tragedies.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Jeffrey had detected the Greek element before it had become a critical commonplace. Scott expressed the doubt whether Jeffrey had 3. Ny feeling of poetic genius, and Scott was rarely unjust. But the man who wrote thus about Keats was certainly not wholly destitute of such feeling. The just criticism and the skilful choice of extracts in the essay on ForcTs Dramatic Works support the same conclusion.
As Macaulay said of himself that he was nothing if not historical, so it may be said of Jeffrey ...that he is nothing if not critical. Yet it must be added that a considerable part of the value of the essays lies in remarks suggested by a vigorous understanding and a wide experience of the world on points not strictly literary. It is this which makes him pronounce Burns's belief " in the dispensing power of genius and social feeling, in all matters of morality and common sense " his leading vice. And from the same source came the admirable 204 THE ENGLISH ESSAY AND ESSAYISTS J, ; remarks on courage in the essay on Byron's Tragedies.
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