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Are the English Critical?
Babbitt, Irving | March 21, 1912 issue

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Some rather large claims have been made of late for English literary criticism. In short, English criticism is largely a history of foreign influences. In this field, the English have been constant borrowers, and only occasional lenders. Not only has English literary criticism been comparatively uninfluential; on other countries, it has been comparatively uninfluential on English literature itself. Nothing is more striking in French literature, on the other hand, than the intimate relation that has always existed between criticism and creation. The opposition between English genius and foreign rules is also felt during the later period of French influence.

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CRITICISM; FRENCH literature; ENGLISH literature; LANGUAGE & languages; STYLE, Literary; LITERARY ethics
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