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| | §7. His prose; "Essays in Criticism". IV. Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson. Vol. 13. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | That purpose was to cure the great vice of our intellect, manifesting itself in our incredible vagaries in literature, in art, in religion, in morals; namely, that it is fantastic, and wants sanity. 13 |
 | | The main body of his purely literary criticism, with the exception of a few scattered essays, is to be found in the lectures On Translating Homer (1861), and The Study of Celtic Literature (1867), and in the two volumes entitled Essays in Criticism (1865, 1889). |
 | | When we turn from these eccentric preferences to the main principles of his literary criticism, we find, in his definitions of them, at any rate, much that is incontrovertible and a little that is open to question. |
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