What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be?
(2021)
Book Chapter
Grimble, S. (2021). What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be?. In A. Sridhar, M. A. Hosseini, & D. Attridge (Eds.), The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century (173-191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71139-9_9
In his essay “On Translating Homer” (1861), Matthew Arnold wrote that “the critic […] should have the finest tact, the nicest moderation, the most free, flexible, and plastic spirit imaginable […].” To our contemporary culture such characterizations... Read More about What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be?.