A Survey of English Literature 1780-1830, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Survey of English Literature 1780-1830, Vol. 1 of 2 This work has been termed a survey and not a history, though it contains matter for the historian, and his point of view has been kept in mind throughout in the arrangement of the theme. But the historical aspect is meant to be subordinate; and the book is really a review, a direct criticism, of everything I can find in the literature of fifty years that speaks to me with any sound of living voice. As the motto on the title-page may indicate, it is a series of judgments upon works of art. I do not know what literature is unless it is an art. Life and ideas, society and manners, politics and affairs, must always be studied in order to understand that art and to judge of its productions. But on each of these productions our last word must be an answer to the questions, Is it well done? Does it last? What is it to me? Even the further question, How does it arise? is less ultimate and imperative. It is of course equally right and needful to study literature for the light which it may cast upon other things - upon thought or ethics or national character; but that is a different enterprise, not to be confounded with the present one, although the material may often be the same in the two cases. The summaries and studies of tendency which will be found in the first and last chapters and elsewhere may seem to stray from the programme here laid down, and have been included with some hesitation. They are sketches, often simple headings; and it would have taken a book as long again, and also a whole band of specialist writers, to do them justice. The influence of foreign literatures on England, and of Byron and Scott abroad; the material conditions of authorship, and the effects of the periodical press upon the craft; the records of scholarship, and the evolution of philosophy as it is mirrored in letters; - many of these topics still await a concerted attack, though much has been done already to map them out. 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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