Mid-West Quarterly, The (1913-1918)
Date of this Version
1914
Abstract
The first gift of criticism is perspective. By perspective I mean a comprehensive view of related matters shown in their just and intelligible proportion. To attain such views in any department which falls within our human ken is no light task. The matters considered must be seen, as Arnold would have us see life, steadily and whole; and steadiness implies balance in the observer, no less than wholeness depends upon the accessibility of the phenomena. It is a happy union, therefore, of the personality and the season which produces the truly great critic.
Comments
Published in THE MID-WEST QUARTERLY Vol. 1, No. 4 (July 1914).