The Well-Tempered Critic
About this book
"It is worth a hundred ordinary critical studies..." - George P. Elliot, The Hudson ReviewFew lovers of literature, students, or even scholars are trained in the art of criticism. While our universities emphasize research and specialization, the student, as a critic, is largely self-taught. In this book Mr. Frye establishes some basic tools for criticism because "without the possibility of criticism as a structure of knowledge, culture, and society with it, would be condemned to morbid antagonism between the supercilious refined and the resentful un-refined." These critical principles may enable the well-read layman as well as the literary researcher to respond to works of literature of widely divergent styles and allow his critical judgment to relate them to literary culture as a whole.