Prejudices, First Series
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Criticism of Criticism of Criticism
18:55 -
The Late Mr. Wells
25:31 -
Arnold Bennett
30:39 -
The Dean
10:48 -
Professor Veblen
35:50 -
The New Poetry Movement
23:22 -
The Heir of Mark Twain
9:51 -
Hermann Sudermann
18:07 -
George Ade
20:35 -
The Butte Bashkirtseff
12:13 -
Six Members of the Institute
29:01 -
The Genealogy of Etiquette
38:27 -
The American Magazine
18:43 -
The Ulster Polonius
17:30 -
An Unheeded Law-Giver
8:52 -
The Blushful Mystery
26:52 -
George Jean Nathan
28:44 -
Portrait of an Immortal Soul
21:20 -
Jack London
7:08 -
Among the Avatars
11:26 -
Three American Immortals
7:00
Prejudices, First Series (1919) is a public domain work.
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Reviewers and their rules come under scrutiny before the writers they usually judge. In this 1919 collection of essays, H. L. Mencken examines rival approaches to criticism, including moral instruction, formal standards and psychological interpretation. His discussion of J. E. Spingarn considers the claim that a critic should judge a work through its maker's aims. The opening turns disagreements about literature into an argument about the habits and responsibilities of reviewing.
The contents range across individual authors, the new poetry movement, magazines and etiquette. In a later passage, Mencken challenges an earlier assessment of Robert W. Chambers by examining dialogue and the commercial fiction it represents. His attention moves between broad theories and particular sentences, showing how a literary reputation can become a subject of dispute. Readers interested in the history of criticism will find outspoken judgments that invite close examination of the standards behind them.
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- H. L. Mencken
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