Critical Essay by Randall Jarrell
[The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry consists of] lectures about the two most influential sorts of contemporary criticism, and about a very differ...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[Crane's main subjects of inquiry are suggested by the title of his book, The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry.] In the phrase...
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Critical Essay by Northrop Frye
[In The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry] Mr. Crane speaks as though he were presenting a distinctive kind of criticism, recoverable from Aristotle, ...
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Critical Essay by Lawrence Lipking
The Idea of the Humanities has been designed to do justice to Crane as a humanist—a scholar not limited to any particular subject matter or set of problems. ...
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Critical Essay by Bert O. States
[The Idea of the Humanities] is perhaps the best argument in support of dogmatism (I would prefer another word) as a natural force in humanistic pursuits. Take, for i...
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Critical Essay by Randall Jarrell
