Newton Arvin Quotes

United States, Critic
August 25, 1900 – March, 21, 1963.

Fredrick Newton Arvin was an American literary critic and academic. He achieved national recognition for his studies of individual nineteenth-century American authors.

Also known as Academic

“If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the stuff, but because the stuff is allowed to render up its own poetic essences.”

Newton Arvin
- Poetry
- Stuff
- Essences
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.

Newton Arvin
- Reading
- Books
- Student