Tag: The Literature Network

• Washington Irving Rips Critics

  From The Literature Network, here’s an excerpt from Desultory Thoughts On Criticism, a very funny essay written in 1839 by Sleepy Hollow legend Washington Irving: “It is singular, also, to see the fickleness of the world with respect to its favorites. Enthusiasm exhausts itself, and prepares the way for dislike. The public is always for…

  Bill Ectric

  January 8, 2009

  literary criticism, The Literature Network, Washington Irving