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)

    “First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The Critic spits on what is done,—
    Gives it a wipe,—and all is gone.”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)