Download or read book Cobwebs of Criticism Classic Reprint written by HALL. CAINE and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cobwebs of Criticism I N the midst of a fair country there stood an exceeding high and holy mountain whereon the sun never set, but parleyed with it through all ages of ages, from the dawn of morning light over the moorlands till the shadows died along them at eve. And on the summit of this great steepness there was a fountain, and the sun and the skies were mirrored in its waters, and he that drank thereof might never die. And multitudes came from the uttermost parts of the earth to climb the steepness, and drink of the spring and live for ever. Some of them that came were in tattered mantles, and the food whereon they lived was bread and water; and some were in fine raiment and lived sumptuously but all turned their steps upward to where the mountain kissed the sky. And in every age the few strong men who adventured so far attained the summit but the sides of the mountain were hard and rugged and many fell by the way; and where each man fell, there they buried him, and at the foot were the graves of the many who had fallen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Cobwebs of Criticism written by Sir Hall Caine and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Cobwebs of Criticism written by T. Hall Caine and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Curiosities and Criticism Classic Reprint written by Henry James Jennings and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Curiosities and Criticism 'f ritics are not altogether a popular race. Their occupation, if it be honestly carried Out, necessitates much fault-finding, and fault-finders are not universally liked. Critics have come to be thought, rightly or wrongly, exacting in their requirements, and exceedingly difficult to please; and people 'of this kind, whether in public or private life, are not, as a rule, much cared for. Your thoroughly popular man is he who likes' everything, who is easily satisfied, who never grumbles, who sets up for himself no rigid, standard of perfection, who is fettered by no severe canons Of taste, and whose iudgment is characterised by a n elastic and accommoda'img cqmqtefimexxememess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Rudiments of Criticism Classic Reprint written by E. A. Greening Lamborn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rudiments of Criticism Simple style, a general introduction to the meaning and scope of criticism. There are numerous and admirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Modern Book of Criticism Classic Reprint written by Ludwig Lewisohn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Modern Book of Criticism Criticism is no isolated thing; it is not an amusement of elegant triflers; it is not - as many people think - a sport of aloof academicians. It is as present as the air, as concrete as bread, and far more necessary to human civilization than steam or petrol. The proverbial Philistine who refuses to see a play that will not make him laugh practices criticism of the most formidable kind and reveals in that practice all he is. For consider the implications of his critical reaction: the utter lack of humane sympathies, the stum of all gentler influences, the hard determination to give no part of his earnings for anything that neither stirs his senses nor flatters his consciousness of superiority. Consider, fur thermore, the forces in his civilization that have made him what he is: the insistence on mechanical values, the steely ferocities of business competition, the militant subordination of all the elements of life to one coarse and impoverishing kind of success. I could go further and point out how this Philistine's lack of a subtle shame in his attitude, indeed his brazen pride in it, demonstrates the failure on the part of the intellectuals of his age and country to create a cultural atmosphere in which he would be forced, despite himself, into an uneasy awareness of the poverty of his own soul. And I could proceed to an analysis of the impotence of these intellectuals. Or else, I could select another critical reaction of our average business man: his moral indignation over a literary or dramatic treatment of sex, and I could readily derive that from his own furtive grossness or em bittered self-repression. But it is already clear that the humblest critical remark made by a random man or woman in any crowd you please has implications that can sear the soul or cry to heaven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Elements of Criticism Classic Reprint written by Henry Home and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elements of Criticism Congruity and Propriety Dignity and Grace Ridicule Wit Custom and Habit. External Signs of Emotions arid Passions Sentiments Language of Passion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mutual Criticism Classic Reprint written by John Humphrey Noyes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mutual Criticism Criticism is no new thing under the sun. It is at least as old as art, literature and public life. The writers, artists and orators of early Greece and Rome felt its power. The' authors whose works now constitute the classics of English litera ture ran its gauntlet as truly as any Bohemian of our time. The terrible castigations which public men receive to-day are not more severe than those administered in the days of Demosthenes and Cicero. Only Criticism, calling to its aid every modern means of communication, has become more omnipresent. But mutual criticism systematized as a means of culture - is a new institution, and of such value, in the Opinion of those who have most thoroughly tested it, that its origin, philosophy, manner of application and results, deserve to be more gener ally known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Croce and Literary Criticism Classic Reprint written by O. K. Struckmeyer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Croce and Literary Criticism But it seems that there is a confusion here between difference and differentiation.' Differentiation may be extensive, but how can difference itself be other than in tensive? In the case of pure extension comparison is as unattainable as in the case of pure intension for if the latter is perfect unity, the former is complete disintegration. Pure qualities, indeed, do not submit themselves to valuation, but this is by reason, not of their qualitative, but of their absolute nature. Differences in art value must surely be originally and essentially qualitative; the quantitative element is no more than the mere instrument of our conscious realisation of these qualitative values in terms of difference. But quite probably Croce's meaning is that differences in art value are so essentially qualitative that we can only apprehend them as greater or lesser extensive) manifesta tions of that same absolute quality which we call aesthetic activity. Now, it is a true observation that method of judgment and thing judged are in reality one. If we would judge a work of art our method of judgment must approach as far as possible the reality of the work of art, that is the creation of it. In order to know a thing we must be it. Croce's advocacy of the criterion of expressiveness is then theoretically justified. But in this case can the ideal judgment be said to be any longer a judgment at all? Is it possible for our immediate, absolute and entirely aesthetic intuition of a work of art to be in any true sense a judgment of that work of art? Can criticism be purely contemplative? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Criticism and Fiction Classic Reprint written by W. D. Howells and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Criticism and Fiction Hat is to say, as I under stand, that moods and tastes and fashions change; people fancy now this and now that; but what is unpretentious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Criticism Classic Reprint written by W. C. Brownell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Criticism As a matter of fact these two rather celebrated disparagers of criticism were greatly indebted to the critical faculty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Primer of Criticism Classic Reprint written by Eugene L. Didier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Primer of Criticism More than a third of a century ago, Margaret Fuller said America had no national literature. Yet, at that time Irving, Poe, Cooper, Hawthorne, Bryant, Prescott, Emerson, Bayard Taylor, Simms, and Lowell were living American writers. All of these, except the latter, have passed away, leaving no worthy successors. The United States presents the extraordinary spectacle of a nation of readers, with scarcely one great national writer - a nation great in arms, progressive in science, enterprising in commerce, but unproductive in literary genius. We have so-called literary men in abundance - journalists, magazinists, compilers of books - but we look in vain for a "bard sublime," for a great American novelist, a great American critic. Plato banished poets from his republic. America does not honor literary talent as much as other professional talent. Edgar A. Poe, who, although a man of wayward habits, certainly possessed rare intellectual gifts, was forced to confess towards the close of his life, that he could not support himself by his pen; yet that pen had written the Raven, Ligeia, the Bells, The Fall of the House of Usher, and other unique compositions which the world will not willingly let die. An American poet, glancing at American literature twenty-five years ago, satirically said: "While the polished pen scarce earns a garret, Double-entry points to peace and claret." Is it much better now? American Congressmen affect to laugh at what they call "them literary fellahs." Congress has never been distinguished for the literary character of its members. The average Congressman is a man of mediocre ability, who reads nothing but the daily newspapers and cares nothing for literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Study and Stage written by William Archer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Study and Stage: A Year-Book of Criticism In one respect, the book may claim a certain origin; ality. I am not aware that any one hitherto has dared to treat the English acted drama as literature, and to place literary and dramatic criticisms not only on the same plane, but absolutely in the same rank, shoulder to shoulder. I trust the reader will not find that the variety thus imparted to my subject - matter amounts to a dis tressing heterogeneity. Perhaps the sagacious reviewer may discern in this division of my interests a source of weak ness, and decide that I write about the drama like a literary critic and about literature like a dramatic critic. If he can forgive me for taking the jibe out of his mouth, he may perhaps admit, on reflection, that it is no bad thing for a critic here and there to bring with him to the theatre some of the standards of the study, and to carry back to the study some of that rapidity of perception and penetration which is, or ought to be, engendered by the habit of making snapshot records of the passing pageant of the stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Higher Criticism Classic Reprint written by James Paterson Sheraton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Higher Criticism Attempting what is impossible, and that soone later they must either retrace their steps or advew the more logical and consistent position of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book My Literary Passions Criticism and Fiction Classic Reprint written by William Dean Howells and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Literary Passions, Criticism and Fiction Editor's Studv continued in the keeping of its first occupant, its lesson was more or less stormily delivered, to the exclusion, for the greater part, of other prophecy, but it has not been found well to keep the tempestuous manner along with the fulminant matter in this volume. When the author came to revise the material, he found sins against taste which his zeal for righteousness could not suffice to atone for. He did not hesitate to omit the proofs of these, and so far to make himself not only a precept, but an example in criticism. He hopes that in other and slighter things he has bettered his own instruction, and that in form and in fact the book is altogether less crude and less rude than the papers from which it has here been a second time evolved. The papers, as they appeared from mouth to month, were not the product of those unities of time and place which were the happy conditioning of My Literary Passions. They could not have been written in quite so many places as times, but they enjoyed a comparable variety of origin. Beginning in Boston, they were continued in a Boston suburb, on the shores of Lake George, in a Western New York health resort, in Buffalo, in Nahant; once, twice, and thrice in New York, with reversions to Boston, and summer excur sions to the hills and waters of New England, until it seemed that their author had at last said his say, and he voluntarily lapsed into silence with the applause Of friends and enemies alike. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Elements of Criticism Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Henry Home Kames and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elements of Criticism, Vol. 1 Upon that account, they are conceived to be more refined and fpiritual, than what are derived from taiting, touching, and fmelling; for the latter feelings, leeming to exil't externally at the organ of feule, are conceived to be merely cor . About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Friday Nights written by Edward Garnett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Friday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciations After he had returned to his cottage from town, let me write something on this or that author, from this aspect or from that angle. And lying in his porch he would reach for paper and ink and jot down on the fly leaf Of a book some notes Of appreciations. But the next morning the tide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
