Footnote 7, Introduction, of the author's Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater, which University of Texas Press published in 1969. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
I have been greatly helped in this matter by the sustained reflection of A. Dwight Culler: in The Imperial Intellect: A Study of Cardinal Newman's Educational Ideal; "Method in the Study of Victorian Prose," The Victorian Newsletter, No. 9 (Spring 1956), pp. 1-4; and his introductions to Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua and Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold.
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