Erminia wrote:
>I find
>criticism and literary theory essential parts of my appreciation of poetry
>and literature in general, as Oscar Wilde helped me understand with his
>essay 'The artist as critic' (1890)where he let a character state that
>criticism is the superior part of creation.
Dangerous to take that as a straightforward affirmation of the Critic
as superior to the Artist. Elsewhere he said: "The critic has to
educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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