Contemporary Literary Criticism

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“A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

“Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide.”
—Erma Bombeck (b. 1927)

“... criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)