The Importance of Scrutiny: A Compact one-volume selection of the best essays from sixteen years of Scrutiny's publication

Excerpt from The Importance of Selections From A Quarterly Review, 1932-1948

Each generation of original writers, we are told, has to create the taste by which it is understood. Certainly, one can see that a new critical method has grown up alongside modern literature, a method that is now entering even the colleges and affecting the educational system. The New Criticism, John Crowe Ransom has called it. Among its most celebrated products - most celebrated among literary pe0p1e in America at least - are Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson, and The Double Agent by R. P. Blackmur. But the method has been carried to numbers that these books will never reach by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren in their freshman text-book, Understanding Poetry.

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