Essays in Criticism

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Essays in Criticism is a seminal collection of literary essays by Victorian critic Matthew Arnold that helped shape modern English literary criticism.

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instanceOf book
essay collection
author Matthew Arnold NERFINISHED
centralTheme relationship between literature and culture
role of the critic in society
standards of literary excellence
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception considered a seminal work in English literary criticism
followedBy Essays in Criticism: Second Series NERFINISHED
genre literary criticism
hasEdition Essays in Criticism (First Series) NERFINISHED
Essays in Criticism: Second Series NERFINISHED
hasInfluencedDiscipline English studies
comparative literature
cultural criticism
hasPart Heinrich Heine NERFINISHED
Joubert NERFINISHED
Marcus Aurelius NERFINISHED
Maurice de Guérin NERFINISHED
Pagan and Medieval Religious Sentiment NERFINISHED
Spinoza and the Bible NERFINISHED
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time NERFINISHED
The Study of Poetry NERFINISHED
influenced F. R. Leavis NERFINISHED
New Criticism NERFINISHED
T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED
modern English literary criticism
language English
literaryMovement Victorian literature NERFINISHED
mediaType print
notableFor advocating the study of the best that has been thought and said
formulating the idea of disinterested criticism
period Victorian era NERFINISHED
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationDate 1865
publisher Macmillan and Co. NERFINISHED
subject European literature
Renaissance literature
classical literature
poetry
religion and literature

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