Notwithstanding the literary odor with which Mr. Lindsley sprayed himself as he sprayed his handkerchief with a domestic scent called "Sesame and Lilies," his neoclassic determination to write the American Iliad must have died painlessly when his iambically disposed feet ventured too deeply into the quagmire of pedagogy, from which he was not to emerge.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
If his historicism is dubious, his discourse is neatly illustrative of a neoclassic critical method and of the kind of psychological assumptions upon which such arguments could proceed.
"An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients"
John Ogilvie Commentator: Wallace Jackson
His discussion of the function of judgment is, if anything, more conventional within the boundaries of neoclassic criticism than is his view of the imagination.
"An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients"
John Ogilvie Commentator: Wallace Jackson