1. Matthew Arnold: The Function of Criticism at the Present Tim
... works of literature, or most people would be denied their true happiness. Arnold says that well-doing, learning, or even criticizing can be creative projects and that they can be just as fulfilling as a great work of literature. He then says that the critical process may in fact be ... works. Criticism may be necessary because the creative power works with certain materials, and for the author these materials are ideas; "the best ideas on every matter which literature touches, current at the time" (2104). However, authors do not actually discover these ideas, rather they synthesize them...
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