ISBN: 9780217991933

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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. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... TOLSTOY; OR, THE ANCIENT FEUD BE- TWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND ART This has been a century of strange conversions, and not least strange among these is Count Leo Tolstoy''s abdication of an art in which he had won world-wide reputation for the r61e of prophet and iconoclast. What is Art? he has asked himself, and his published answer,'' the outcome of fifteen years of meditation, is a denial of all that has made art noble in the past, and a challenge to those who seek to continue that tradition in the present. Furthermore he has put his theory into practice in a long and powerful novel, Resurrection? Naturally such a renunciation on the part of an undisputed master in the craft caused no small commotion among poets and critics. Many of these, chiefly of the French school, shrugged their shoulders and smiled at a theory that would reject the works of Sophocles and Dante and Shakespeare as savage and meaningless, and find in Uncle Tom''s Cabin the acme of art toward 1 What is Art? By Leo F. Tolstoy. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co. * Resurrection. By Leo F. Tolstoy. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. r which the ages have been tending. Others have taken the quasi prophet more seriously, and with much ingenuity have pointed out the seeming flaws in his argument. Must I for my part confess that I have been chiefly impressed by the terrible and relentless logic of the book? It is easy to smile; it is easy to denounce the work as literary nihilism put into practice by a converted pessimist. Pessimist and fanatic and barbarian Tolstoy may be, and to judge from his portrait alone he is all these; yet I know not how we shall escape his ruthless conclusions unless we deny resolutely his premises, and these are in part what our age holds as its dearest heritage of truth. Furthermore, his the... Paul Elmer More, Books, History, Shelburne Essays (volume 1); Shelburne Essays Books>History Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ORIGINS OF HAWTHORNE AND POE We are credibly told that in years not so very long past young women and even grave men used to read the Gothic tales of Ann Radcliffe with tense brows and trembling lips; and the essays of Carlyle still stand a voluble witness to prove how seriously the grotesque marvels of German romance were once accepted in England. Mrs. Radcliffe is no doubt read occasionally to-day, and the indefatigable Mr. Lang has even attempted to reinstate her in popular favour. But her most generous admirer could hardly aver that she was anything more to him than a curious amusement; the horror of her tales has vanished away like the moonlight she was so fond of describing. And as for Tieck and Wackenroder and all that dim romantic crew of Teuton Sturm and Drang -- not even an Andrew Lang has arisen for them. It is a matter for reflection, therefore, that in this country a new life of Hawthorne' should be 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne. By George E. Woodberry. [American Men of Letters.] Boston: Houghton, Mif- flin<

ISBN: 9780217991933

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[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ORIGINS OF HAWTHORNE AND POE We are credibly told that in years not so very long past young women and even grave men used to read the Gothic tales of Ann Radcliffe with tense brows and trembling lips and the essays of Carlyle still stand a voluble witness to prove how seriously the grotesque marvels of German romance were once accepted in England. Mrs. Radcliffe is no doubt read occasionally to-day, and the indefatigable Mr. Lang has even attempted to reinstate her in popular favour. But her most generous admirer could hardly aver that she was anything more to him than a curious amusement the horror of her tales has vanished away like the moonlight she was so fond of describing. And as for Tieck and Wackenroder and all that dim romantic crew of Teuton Sturm and Drang -- not even an Andrew Lang has arisen for them. It is a matter for reflection, therefore, that in this country a new life of Hawthorne' should be 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne. By George E. Woodberry. [American Men of Letters.] Boston: Houghton, Mif- flinVersandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<