ISBN: 9780217938280

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Commons, but it can scarcely be said that they required oratory of a lower rank as literature. The public has responded to close argument or to high moral tone or to an imaginative rendering of popular aspiration. It has apparently grown in readiness to make moral decisions and to follow dominant personalities; and no orator can present a moral issue to a great crowd or impress upon it his own personality without imagination. During the fifty years while the platform has been of greatest importance in democratic politics, the power of the voice and of personal presence have remained among the great essentials of success. Possibly the time has come, when neither the voice nor the presence necessary to sway a huge audience is as important in politics as the ability to find the words which, having swayed the imagination of whatever audience addressed, can continue to extend their sway when translated into cold type. At all events, the public discussion which the issues of democratic government made necessary has demanded literary resources of a high order and has given these an enormous opportunity. VI But the most characteristic and distinctive literature of democracy is the newspaper. Its influence has been incalculably more extensive than that of any novelist or orator. It presents daily a wealth of human incidents scarcely less varied than those of a novel by Dickens, and at comments on the af fairs of the world with a knowledge and certainty beyond the reach of a Gladstone. This applied literature, as it has been termed, bears indeed something of the same relation to the great creators of the imagination that the countless applications of steam power bear to the inventive genius of Watt. It brings daily to each reader a widespread knowledge, sympathy,... Ashley Horace Thorndike, Books, History, Literature in a changing age Books>History The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Publication date: 1920 Subjects: English literature; History / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh<

ISBN: 9780217938280

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Commons, but it can scarcely be said that they required oratory of a lower rank as literature. The public has responded to close argument or to high moral tone or to an imaginative rendering of popular aspiration. It has apparently grown in readiness to make moral decisions and to follow dominant personalities; and no orator can present a moral issue to a great crowd or impress upon it his own personality without imagination. During the fifty years while the platform has been of greatest importance in democratic politics, the power of the voice and of personal presence have remained among the great essentials of success. Possibly the time has come, when neither the voice nor the presence necessary to sway a huge audience is as important in politics as the ability to find the words which, having swayed the imagination of whatever audience addressed, can continue to extend their sway when translated into cold type. At all events, the public discussion which the issues of democratic government made necessary has demanded literary resources of a high order and has given these an enormous opportunity. VI But the most characteristic and distinctive literature of democracy is the newspaper. Its influence has been incalculably more extensive than that of any novelist or orator. It presents daily a wealth of human incidents scarcely less varied than those of a novel by Dickens, and at comments on the af fairs of the world with a knowledge and certainty beyond the reach of a Gladstone. This applied literature, as it has been termed, bears indeed something of the same relation to the great creators of the imagination that the countless applications of steam power bear to the inventive genius of Watt. It brings daily to each reader a widespread knowledge, sympathy,... Ashley Horace Thorndike, Books, History, Literature in a changing age Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217938280

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… More...

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Publication date: 1920Subjects: English literature; History / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Books History~~General Literature-In-A-Changing-Age~~Ashley-Horace-Thorndike General Books LLC The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Publication date: 1920 Subjects: English literature; History / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh<