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Excerpt from Sainte-Beuve's Critical Theory and Practice After 1849: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Once the critic has explained an author or a work on scientific grounds, there arises the task of estimating the individual work itself. Is it good or bad What is good or bad in it P sainte-beuve believed in attempting a final appraisement of a work or an author. He judged on the basis of five criteria: taste (his definition of taste), truth, that Is to say, truth to life, tradition (his definition of tradi tion, his relations to contemporary intellectual and critical move ments), logic and consistency, morality.
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