EECENT PHASES OF LITERAKY CKITICISM 133 



for Poe and Shelley, and Arnold's antipathy to Vic- 

 tor Hugo's poetry. Likes and dislikes in literature 

 that are temperamental, that are like the attraction 

 or repulsion of bodies in different electrical condi- 

 tions, are hard to be avoided, but the trained reader 

 may hope to overcome them. Taste is personal, but 

 the intellect is, or should be, impersonal, and to be 

 able to guide the former by the light of the latter is 

 the signal triumph of criticism. 



