George Jean Nathan on the Shortcomings of Criticism

Posted on May 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the author’s fame.”

George Jean Nathan

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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