In his paper " The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism ," ( 1921 ) Housman stated: " A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motion of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas.

T. S. Eliot attacked the reputation of Kubla Khan and sparked a dispute within literary criticism with his analysis of the poem in his essay " Origin and Uses of Poetry " from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ): " The way in which poetry is written is not, so far as our knowledge of these obscure matters as yet extends, any clue to its value ...

Criticism of learning theories that underlie traditional educational practices claims there is no need for such a theory ; that the attempt to comprehend the process of learning through theory construction creates more problems and inhibits personal freedom.

Criticism of postmodernism are intellectually diverse, including the assertions that postmodernism is meaningless and promotes obscurantism.

The Public Address events include Informative Speaking, Persuasive Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism, and After Dinner Speaking ; the Limited Preparation events include Impromptu Speaking and Extemporaneous Speaking ; and the interpretation events include Poetry, Prose, Dramatic Interpretation, Dramatic Duo Interpretation ( in which at least one dramatic piece is presented by two speakers working together ), Duo Interpretation ( in which two speakers present a scene or scenes from any source ), and Programmed Oral Interpretation ( in which speakers use material from multiple genres with a common theme ).

In his Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method, scholar Edwin Black states, " It is the task of criticism not to measure … discourses dogmatically against some parochial standard of rationality but, allowing for the immeasurable wide range of human experience, to see them as they really are.

Criticism is considered rhetorical when it focuses on the way some types of discourse react to situational exigencies – problems or demands – and constraints.

However, the theory of relativity is now considered as a cornerstone of modern physics, see Criticism of relativity theory.

Criticism from Russia, a country held to be in violation of the Convention by the Court in many decisions, is frequent.

Criticism comes most often from politicians, especially when they or an associate of theirs is under investigation for connections to the Mafia.

The final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, Pope claims, is also the ideal man.

Ebert is one of the principal critics featured in Gerald Peary's 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

The thought behind Marxist Criticism is that works of literature are mere products of history that can be analysed by looking at the social and material conditions in which they were constructed.

The fierce debate about the film is discussed at length in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

Critics also argue that the empirical evidence shows that " predatory pricing " does not work in practice and is better defeated by a truly free market than by anti-trust laws ( see Criticism of the theory of predatory pricing ).

Criticism for Frye, then, is not a task of evaluation — that is, of rejecting or accepting a literary work — but rather simply of recognizing it for what it is and understanding it in relation to other works within the ' order of words ' ( Cotrupi 4 ).

Criticism, Frye explains, is essentially centripetal when it moves inwardly, towards the structure of a text ; it is centrifugal when it moves outwardly, away from the text and towards society and the outer world.

Criticism of globalization is skepticism of the claimed benefits of the globalization of capitalism.

After this high point, Quintilian ’ s influence seems to have lessened somewhat, although he is mentioned by the English poet Alexander Pope in his versified “ An Essay on Criticism ”:

Barthes ' rebuttal in Criticism and Truth ( 1966 ) accused the old, bourgeois criticism of a lack of concern with the finer points of language and of selective ignorance towards challenging theories, such as Marxism.

Criticism was given to the album's fourth track, " I Want a Cowboy ", characterizing the song as an " annoying stop-and-go melody and lyrics more befitting a 17 year old Lila McCann, it is a song so generic and irrelevant that it would be album filler on the worst albums ".

Criticism mounted over Revie's allegedly old fashioned and abrupt style of management and his failure to qualify for tournament football.

Criticism has been expressed amongst local activists at proposed plans to turn the old building into a six-storey office block.

In the 1940s and 1950s, New Criticism had tried to analyze literary texts purely internally.

* Elements of Criticism ( 1762 ) Discarding all arbitrary rules of literary composition, he endeavors to establish a new theory on the principles of human nature.

Robert Penn Warren ( April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989 ) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

Some critics have also tried to apply the theory to individual works, but the effort to find unique structures in individual literary works runs counter to the structuralist program and has an affinity with New Criticism.

This tension can help introduce readers to readerly and writerly interpretations, to tenets of New Criticism, and critical tools from Freudian analysis, such as sublimation, in approaching literary works.

In 1800, Joseph Stevens Buckminster became minister of the Brattle Street Church in Boston, where his brilliant sermons, literary activities, and academic attention to the German " New Criticism " helped shape the subsequent growth of Unitarianism in New England.

For example, the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism draws no distinction between literary theory and literary criticism, and almost always uses the terms together to describe the same concept.

In the British and American literary establishment, the New Criticism was more or less dominant until the late 1960s.

His lasting reputation rests principally on the theory of literary criticism that he developed in Anatomy of Criticism ( 1957 ), one of the most important works of literary theory published in the twentieth century.

As A. C. Hamilton outlines in Northrop Frye: Anatomy of his Criticism, Frye's assumption of coherence for literary criticism carries important implications.

Criticism over his oeuvre is severely divided between some English-speaking critics, who despise his literary style as poor, lightweight and superficial, and some of those more attached to the European tradition, who praise his humanism, simplicity and effective style.

The New Criticism dominated English and American literary criticism from the 1920s to the early 1960s.

His unorthodox thinking led to a conflict with another French thinker, Raymond Picard, who attacked the French New Criticism ( a label that he inaccurately applied to Barthes ) for its obscurity and lack of respect towards France's literary roots.

In 1933, Hazlitt published The Anatomy of Criticism, an extended " trialogue " examining the nature of literary criticism and appreciation, regarded by some to be an early refutation of literary deconstruction.

Photo by C. Cameron Macauley. Ransom was a leading figure of the school of literary criticism known as the New Criticism, which gained its name from his 1941 volume of essays The New Criticism.

In his seminal 1937 essay, " Criticism, Inc ." Ransom laid out his ideal form of literary criticism stating that, " criticism must become more scientific, or precise and systematic.

The Southern Review was co-founded in 1935 by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Penn Warren who served as U. S. Poet Laureate and wrote the classic novel All the King's Men, and renowned literary critic of the New Criticism school, Cleanth Brooks.

His 1967 essay " Criticism and Crisis " argues that because literary works are understood to be fictions rather than factual accounts, they exemplify the break between a sign and its meaning: literature " means " nothing, but critics resist this insight because it lays bare " the nothingness of human matters " ( de Man quoting Rousseau, one of his favorite authors ).