Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote

The crying sin of modern criticism is that it is overloaded with personality. If an author commit an error, there is no wish to set him right for the sake of truth, but for the sake of triumph - that the reviewer may show how much wiser, or how much abler he is than the writer.


In: John Payne Collier, Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton


The crying sin of modern criticism is that it is overloaded with personality. If an author commit an error, there is no wish to set him right for the ...

The crying sin of modern criticism is that it is overloaded with personality. If an author commit an error, there is no wish to set him right for the ...

The crying sin of modern criticism is that it is overloaded with personality. If an author commit an error, there is no wish to set him right for the ...

The crying sin of modern criticism is that it is overloaded with personality. If an author commit an error, there is no wish to set him right for the ...