Literary Critic

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“Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)