BIB_ID
79921
Accession number
MA 824
Creator
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.
Display Date
ca. 1899.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 v. (57 p.) ; 27.2 cm
Notes
Written on the rectos of 57 pages. With many emendations and re-writes and with occasional canceled notes on versos.
Summary
Discussing the "criticism of criticism," and describing democratic vs. aristocratic, Protestant vs. Catholic, and American vs. European literature and literary criticism. Discussing specifically the critics Ferdinand Brunetière, who is a "militant and dogmatic critic," and Matthew Arnold, who "had urbanity, lucidity, proportion and many other classic virtues, but had not breadth, sympathy, heartiness, commonness."
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