competentcriticism

Updated: July 18, 2025

Thus the intellectual weekly gave us an upstanding, competentcriticism of books with ideas in them when the ideas seemed important to the editors; a useful service, but not a comprehensive one; the criticism of a trend rather than a literature; of the products of a social group rather than the outspeaking of a nation. Something more was needed.

Henry Seidel Canby - Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism