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Arnold also likens criticism to creativity, citing how the writing of criticism gives rise to creative joy that comes from original writing. He states that the role of criticism is to make itself inherently valuable, and to rouse men from complacency to a state of achieving perfection. Arnold defines the role of a critic as the one to view an object for what it really is, to bring best ideas to the masses, and to create an atmosphere that fuels the literary genius of the future. In his essay, Arnold states that criticism should be a ‘dissemination of ideas, an unprejudiced and impartial effort to study and spread the best that is known and thought of in the world’. His essay “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” was published in his first collection of critical writings, “Essays in Criticism” in 1865. He occupies a prominent place in the history of Literary Criticism. Matthew Arnold (1882 – 1888) was a poet-critic and one of the most significant writers of the late Victorian period in England.
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