Higher Criticism

Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or criticism:

“Men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
—Leslie Fiedler (b. 1917)