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Two Critics in Search of an Absolute
Gregory, Horace | February 14, 1934 issue

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The article focuses on two critics R.P. Blackmur and Granville Hicks. There is a subtle distinction between literary critic and a writer. In contrast to Blackmur's study there is Hicks's review of American literature since the Civil War. Frankly enough the book "George Santayana" is an interpretation, an experiment in Marxian analysis that is now, certain to meet with more than a mere casual response. The slender framework of historical commentary which binds the book together makes an attractive pattern. The absolute that Hicks and Blackmur seek has been removed by them into a far distance down a narrow road.

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CRITICS; LITERATURE; BLACKMUR, R. P.; HICKS, Granville; AUTHORS; GEORGE Santayana (Book)
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