1. Matthew Arnold: The Function of Criticism at the Present Tim
... fulfilling as a great work of literature. He then says that the critical process may in fact be a crucial one for the creation of literary 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 into works of art. Therefore, if these ideas are not readily known to the ... nearly all foreign ideas. They reproached that "free play of the ...
- Word Count: 1537
- Approx Pages: 6