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Criticism.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Analyzing and evaluating the quality of man-made objects, literary works and documents, actions or projects. For critical descriptions or analyses of relatively recent works or events, use ""reviews"" .

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of G S Fraser.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8002
Scope and Contents

Comprising manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems and critical work, with 86 letters from correspondents, including Ronald Bottrall, Lawrence Durrell, William Empson, and Kathleen Raine.

Dates: 1948-1978.

Papers of Kenneth White.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11211
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of literary and critical works and related correspondence.

Dates: 1978-1995.

Richard Wharton, "Observations on the Authenticity of Bruce`s Travels" (1800), with extensive annotations by William George Browne.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8454
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1789, of James Bruce to George Robinson.

Dates: 1789, 1800.

Student notes of the ‘Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres’ of Hugh Blair.

 File
Identifier: MS.850
Scope and Contents

The lectures contain (folios 51 verso, 59 verso, 76 verso) the criticisms of Dr Johnson omitted from the published ‘Lectures’, and in particular the rendering of a passage of Addison in the style of Johnson (folio 83) quoted in part by Boswell in his ‘Life’ (edited by Birkbeck Hill, 1934, etc., volume iii, page 172).

Dates: 18th century.

Work entitled `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` consisting of criticisms of George Buchanan’s ‘Return Scoticarum historia’ (folio 7) and his ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ (folio 64) by Sir James Turner, preceded by various items of introductory and explanatory matter.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.14
Scope and Contents Although the author details the circumstances in which he began, lost, rewrote and revised his criticisms and had them bound, a period ranging from 1643 to 1679, his name nowhere appears; but he has been identified as the soldier and author Sir James Turner.The criticisms are followed (folio 64) by two satirical writings by Turner purporting to be a letter of Don Francesco Gomez de Quevedo Villegas with the impossible date of 1506, and a letter, 1582, of ‘Philander of Sitwald’....
Dates: 1643-1679.