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Critical review   /krˈɪtɪkəl rˌivjˈu/   Listen
Critical review

noun
1.
An essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play).  Synonyms: critique, review, review article.






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"Critical review" Quotes from Famous Books



... new editions of his "History of the United States," his "Teacher," a supplement to the "Elementary," his "Improved Grammar," and he prepared a "Manual of Useful Studies." All of these books had friends and enemies, and one of the most energetic of the latter, Lyman Cobb, published "a Critical Review of the Orthography of Dr. Webster's Series of Books for Systematick Instruction in the English Language," which, in spite of some injustice and much quibbling, is a most searching and exhaustive commentary on Webster's weaknesses. The contest over Webster's Dictionary, ...
— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder

... ought to write a critical review, analysing Lord Byron's language, in order to guard others against ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... to take measures for the abolition of slavery. These petitions excited the wrath and indignation of many of the slave-holding members, yet no one thought of refusing to receive them. They were referred to a select committee, at the instance of Mr. Madison, himself, who "entered into a critical review of the circumstances respecting the adoption of the Constitution, and the ideas upon the limitation of the powers of Congress to interfere in the regulation of the commerce of slaves, and showed that they undoubtedly were not precluded from interposing in their ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... of Lander's "Gebir" came first from Southey in "The Critical Review." Southey found that the poem grew upon him, and became afterwards Landor's lifelong friend. When Shelley was at Oxford in 1811, there were times when he would read nothing but "Gebir." His friend Hogg says that when he went to Shelley's rooms one morning to ...
— Count Julian • Walter Savage Landor



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