Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)
“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”
— Henry James, book What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
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