ABSTRACT
So with the sense of value in the study of literature. One cannot pursue that study with the object of arriving at value-judgements, because the only possible goal of study is knowledge. The sense of value is an individual, unpredictable, variable, incommunicable, indemonstrable, and mainly intuitive reaction to knowledge. In knowledge the context of the work of literature is literature; in value-judgement, the context of the work of literature is the reader's experience. When knowledge is limited, the sense of value is naive; when knowledge improves, the sense of value improves too, but it must wait upon knowledge for its improvement. When two value-judgements conflict, nothing can resolve the conflict except greater knowledge.
