Letter

 1 PrefNote |          to acknowledge valuable criticism given by Professor Sherman,
 2 Introd   |     literature we have abandoned criticism and research for the Beautiful
 3 LXXXV    |          I am old, I shall write criticism; that will console me, for
 4 CIII     |         the last of the critics. Criticism rightly so-called, will
 5 CIV      |         your brain.~You speak of criticism in your last letter to me,
 6 CIV      |     artists? Where do you know a criticism? Who is there who is anxious
 7 CIV      |          the author? Never.~That criticism would require great imagination
 8 CV       |       say very good things about criticism. But in order to do as you
 9 CXL      |        instead of defending you. Criticism is in a sad way; too much
10 CLXXXVIII|          Republic is above every criticism” is equivalent to that belief: “
11 CLXXXVIII|   beautiful and ugly. Recall the criticism of recent years. What difference
12 CXCV     | metaphysics, she must enter into criticism, that is to say into the
13 CC       |          guide, and without good criticism? Well, you are not the master
14 CCI      |       everywhere? Has not modern criticism abandoned art for history?
15 CCXII    |          is the highest thing in criticism, since it gives the means
16 CCXIII   |         above all in an age when criticism undoes everything and does
17 CCXVI    |       who debases himself before criticism, after having “flattered
18 CCXIX    |      they don’t want me to write criticism; whoever is not, or was
19 CCXLV    |          youth” of the book. The criticism seems true to me. It is
20 CCLXIV   |       lacking. Such is my humble criticism.~They had said in a theatrical
21 CCLXXX   |         to do as I do and IGNORE criticism when it is not serious,
22 CCLXXX   |        to the author criticised. Criticism always starts from a personal
23 CCLXXX   |    jumble of appreciation called CRITICISM, what one has done and what
24 CCLXXX   |        and what one wants to do. Criticism does not know anything about
25 CCLXXXVII|        then, what use is so much criticism!~I am reasonable. I go out
26 CCC      |         brush. Art is not merely criticism and satire: criticism and
27 CCC      |     merely criticism and satire: criticism and satire depict only one
28 CCCI     |           that art is not merely criticism and satire; moreover, I
29 CCCVI    | meanwhile making a PHILOSOPHICAL criticism of the method, is that Rougon