Quotes by Lawrence, D. H.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings ever >>

We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of a >>

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the >>

Quotations about Literary Criticism

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very acade >>

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- an >>

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specializat >>

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.

Lawrence, D. H.