Sentence: Literary criticism is the study of literature by means of a microscopic knowledge of the language in which a book is written, of its growth from various roots , of its stages of development and the factors influencing them, of its condition in the period of this particular composition, of the writer's idiosyncrasies of thought and style in his ripening periods, of the general history and literature of his race, and of the special characteristics of his age and of his contemporary writers.
Entities: entity1: growth; entity2: roots
Relationship: Other