"I got a glimpse into the uses of a certain kind of criticism this past summer at a writers' conference – into how the…"

"Literature is one facet of a culture. The significance of a literature can be best understood in terms of the culture…"

"Literature must, of necessity, express and articulate the deepest perceptions, relationships, and attitudes of a cult…"

"The question I propose to consider is in what way one may justify the study of English on cultural and disciplinary, …"

"Literature is the question minus the answer."

"The only test of a work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own."

"While the guardians of “literary” fiction still give each other prizes and writers can still achieve stardom and crea…"

"The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biogra…"

"A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fulness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought a…"

"Republic of letters."