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pointing out how Goldsmith made a great change in criticism
by shifting attention to the experience of the reader, Lowenthal
has broken rich new ground (pp. 107-8):
But perhaps the most far-reaching change which
took place in the concept of the critic was that a two-way
function was premised for him. Not only was he to reveal
the beauties of literary works to the general public by
means of which, in Goldsmith’s terms, “even the
philosopher may acquire popular applause”; he must also
interpret the public back to the writer. In brief, the critic
not only “teaches the vulgar on what part of a character
to lay the emphasis of praise,” he must also show “the
scholar where to point his application so as to deserve it.”
Goldsmith believed that the absence of such critical
mediators explained why wealth rather than true literary