Allen Tate Quote

Scientific approaches, because each has its own partial conventions momentarily arrogating to themselves the authority of total explanation, must invariably fail to see all the experience latent in the work.


Critical Responsibility, The New Republic, Volume 51, Number 663, August 17, 1927 (p. 340)


Scientific approaches, because each has its own partial conventions momentarily arrogating to themselves the authority of total explanation, must...

Scientific approaches, because each has its own partial conventions momentarily arrogating to themselves the authority of total explanation, must...

Scientific approaches, because each has its own partial conventions momentarily arrogating to themselves the authority of total explanation, must...

Scientific approaches, because each has its own partial conventions momentarily arrogating to themselves the authority of total explanation, must...