Literary Significance and Criticism
Stéphane Mallarmé referred to his Penses-tu réussir! as a modern version of Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education.
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“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.”
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“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
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