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  • The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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    D. H. Lawrence
    Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

  • Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

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    D. H. Lawrence
    D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

  • Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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    D. H. Lawrence
    Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1
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D. H. Lawrence

  • Born: September 11, 1885
  • Died: March 2, 1930
  • Occupation: Novelist
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