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Our Critics, Right or Wrong
Marshall, Margaret | October 23, 1935 issue

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The public, in this respect as in every other, has been excessively gullible, but the critic who rails against the public taste is himself directly responsible for it. Poet T.S. Eliot remarks in one of his essays that the purpose of criticism is "the elucidation of works of art and the correction of taste." Criticism in the U.S. during the past ten years has on the whole worked for the misunderstanding of works of art and the debasement of taste. The Tony critics as well as the hack book reviewers have contributed to this anarchy of standards.

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CRITICISM; LITERATURE; ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965; POETS; ART; BOOK reviewing
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