Literary Critic

Famous quotes containing the words literary critic, literary and/or critic:

“The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)

“I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
—J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)

“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”
—Anatole France (1844–1924)