Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09125_Field_TCGG T890.txt

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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