John Churton Collins

John Churton Collins (26 March 1848 – 15 September 1908) was a British literary critic. Quotes To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. Quoted in L. C. Collins, Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins (1912), p. 316 Quotes about John Churton Collins Churton Collins ... was certainly not the man to grow enthusiastic over every " new thing " that might might loom above the literary horizon. He more often confronted novelty from the peak of Mount Ebal Ebal than of Mount Gerizim Gerizim. Yet it was Churton Collins who alligned Stephen Phillips with Dante and Milton, and declared that " no poet has made his début with a volume which is at once of such extraordinary merit and so rich in promise." Arthur Waugh, Tradition and Change: Studies in Contemporary Literature London Chapman & Hall Chapman and Hall, Ltd 1919 Stephen Phillips https://books.google.com/books?id=mIg4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA70 69–88 (quote from p. 70) External links Category:1848 births Category:1908 deaths Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Journalists from England Category:Academics from England Category:Essayists from England