Saintsbury and Art for Art's Sake in England
- 1 March 1944
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
- Vol. 59 (1) , 243-260
- https://doi.org/10.2307/458856
Abstract
The aesthetic movement in England (1870–1900) now seems remote, yet since no history repeats itself more faithfully than that of criticism, the historian of ideas may well inquire what relation the Art for Art's Sake movement has to the mental, moral, and social confusion of today, especially when one hears a reviewer warning us that John Crowe Ransom, like other formal aesthetic critics of today, “often sounds like an aesthete of the 'nineties.“Keywords
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