"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work."

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Source: Margaret Fuller (1846). “Papers on Literature and Art: A short essay on critics. A dialogue. The two Herberts. The prose works of Milton. The life of Sir James Mackintosh. Modern British poets. The modern drama. Dialogue, containing sundry glosses on poetic texts”, p.5

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Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalist, Writer

Margaret Fuller was a 19th-century American journalist and feminist, known for her influential work 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' advocating for women's rights.

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