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Literature Is A Human Apocalypse, Man's Revelation To Man, And Criticism Is Not A Body Of Adjudications, But The Awareness Of That Revelation, The Last Judgement Of Mankind.

The Supremacy Of The Verbal Over The Monumental Has Something About It Of The Supremacy Of Life Over Death.

The Operations Of The Human Mind Are Also Controlled By Words Of Power, Formulas That Become A Focus Of Mental Activity.

A Public That Tries To Do Without Criticism, And Asserts That It Knows What It Wants Or Likes, Brutalizes The Arts And Loses Its Cultural Memory. Art For Art's Sake Is A Retreat From Criticism Which Ends In An Impoverishment Of Civilized Life Itself.

To Bring Anything Really To Life In Literature We Can't Be Lifelike: We Have To Be Literature-like