The Vital Study of Literature: And Other Essays (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Guthrie, William Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331380871 ISBN 13: 9781331380870

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Vital Study of Literature: And Other Essays The present volume cannot claim to be a real book. A real book is the product of long and great love for some one inspiring idea. The creative toil may have been intermittent, yet some single preconceived plan has secured in advance the organic unity of the finished work. Now this, that lies before the reader, is but a loose aggregation of lectures committed to paper after the white heat of delivery had cooled, together with several more or less painstaking and extensive reviews, written because of particular concern in a contemporary publication or for the promotion of an espoused cause, each separately composed without any regard whatever to the possible or actual existence of one another. When, however, these detached lectures and essays came to be collected, - all but one of which appeared at the time of their production in some periodical - what surprised not a little their compiler and reviewer was the inherent unity of design and tendency they exhibit. To group them was no difficult task. First were naturally placed four papers in which certain beliefs held and abided by as teacher and lecturer are advocated not unseldom with what may, to the precise and frigid, seem quite inordinate zeal. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331380871
• ISBN 13: 9781331380870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390