Criticism Books

The Crown of Wild Olive

John Ruskin

John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varie..

Selected Lead Articles from The Dawn

Louisa Lawson

Louisa Lawson was an Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson.Excerpts:"WOMAN is not uncompleted man, but diverse," says Ten..

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52 - April 1667

Samuel Pepys

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52: April 1667 by Samuel Pepys. CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY, TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEG..

Adventures in the Arts

Marsden Hartley

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets. The papers in this book are not intended in any way to be professional treatises. They must be viewed in the light of ..

Evolution of Expression — Volume 1

Charles Wesley Emerson

The revised edition of the "Evolution of Expression" is issued in response to frequent requests from teachers and students for a formulation of those principles upon which natural methods in the teach..

Evolution of Expression, Volume 2

Charles Wesley Emerson

The power to detach, and to magnify by detaching, is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet. This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminence of an object, so remarkable ..

The Victorian Age - The Rede Lecture for 1922

William Ralph Inge

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. The prophet or pioneer, after being at first declared ..

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Palmer Cox

I have been sitting by my window most of the day, watching gentlemen—who were not so fortunate as myself. And I notice with considerable pain—for as reader and writer cannot understand each other too ..