Poets and Puritans (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Glover, T. R.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Poets and Puritans Wandering among books and enjoying them, I find in a certain sense that, the more I enjoy them, the harder becomes the task of criticism, the less sure one´s faith in critical canons, and the fewer the canons themselves. Of one thing, though, I grow more and more sure, - that the real business of the critic is to find out what is right with a great work of art, - book, song, statue, or picture - not what is wrong. Plenty of things may be wrong, but it is what is right that really counts. If the critic´s work is to be worth while, it is the great element in the thing that he has to seek and to find - to learn what it is that makes it live and gives it its appeal, so that, as Montaigne said about Plutarch, men "cannot do without" it; why it is that in a world, where everything that can be "scrapped" is "scrapped," is thrown aside and forgotten, this thing, this book or picture, refuses to be ignored, but captures and charms men generations after its maker has passed away. With such a quest a man must not be in a hurry, and he does best to linger in company with the great men whose work he wishes to understand, and to postpone criticism to intimacy. This book comes in the end to be a record of personal acquaintances and of enjoyment. But one is never done with knowing the greatest men or the greatest works of art - they carry you on and on, and at the last you feel you are only beginning. 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.
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