How understanding becomes clouded and the heart becomes poisoned
It is unfair to judge the ancients by their best works and contemporaries by their worst ones.
In 1803, Samuel T. Coleridge wrote in his notebook a central principle of criticism. He argued that a work should be judged by its virtues, not its defects. According to Coleridge, while it is likely that a work will have defects, its virtues are not guaranteed and discovering them provides new information. This approach to evaluating a work is presented as a guiding principle.
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