Sentence examples for new criticism from inspiring English sources

Critics in the nineteen-fifties, the era of the New Criticism, thought that poems work by holding multiple, sometimes opposing, meanings in tension.

A major critical movement of the 1930s and '40s was the so-called New Criticism of F.R. Leavis, L.C. Knights, Derek Traversi, Robert Heilman, and many others, urging a more formalist approach to the poetry.

See also New Criticism.

That's hardly a new criticism of him.

That is not a new criticism, even from economists.

In Washington, American aid to Pakistan faced new criticism.

So what might the new criticism look like?

Hardline conservative elements in Iran leveled new criticism at Turkey on Thursday.

New Criticism was eclipsed as the dominant mode of Anglo-American literary criticism by the 1970s.

Abroad, an activist foreign policy brought new clout and new criticism.

Yale-school criticism had the same appeal and the same shortcomings as the New Criticism.