Article: Works of Henry Fielding: Tom Jones: Books 11 and 12

Fielding, Henry
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Tom Jones: Books 11 and 12

Book XI

Containing About Three Days

In the introductory chapter Fielding continues to satirize captious and
uninformed criticism, suggesting that some critics would rather condemn a book
than praise it, that unjust criticism proceeds from ignorance of the love and
effort that go into the making of a book, that there are even critics so
malicious as to reject a book without reading it; that some criticism is much
too general, and some too minutely particular, calling attention to minor
faults in the work being criticized but ignoring the total impression made by
it.

When the narrative proper resumes, Sohpia, Honour, and ...

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