Here are some statements by critics, both past and present: As in a city when the evil are permitted to have authority and the good are put out of the way, so in the soul of man, as we maintain, the imitative poet implants an evil constitution, for he indulges the irrational nature which has no discernment of greater and less, but thinks the same thing at one time great and at another small-he is a manufacturer of images and is very far removed from the truth. One might call it metacriticism or even infracriticism, but I suspect actual instances will do more to explain this book than fashionable prefixes. This is not a book of literary criticism. Holland Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 6817614 Printed in the United States of America For my mothers and fathers Page iv Copyright &c.py 1968 by Norman N. HOLLAND New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1968
The Dynamics of Literary Response NORMAN N.
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