Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or theories:
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)