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KlappentextrnrnExcerpt from The Sisters Jest and EarnestThere is one peculiarity about these books with which I shall start. Humour and pathos smee Homer s time have generally gone hand-ih-hand, though the pathos may have been sometimes..
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- Title
- SISTERS JEST & EARNEST (CLASSI
- Author
- Hutton, Maurice
- Publisher
- LULU PR
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1334127441
- ISBN 13
- 9781334127441
Excerpt from The Sisters Jest and Earnest
There is one peculiarity about these books with which I shall start. Humour and pathos smee Homer's time have generally gone hand-ih-hand, though the pathos may have been sometimes, as in Dickens's case, quite uneven and unequal to the humour, and overdone. In Lewis Carroll, however, though the humour is everywhere, the chief pathos lies in the circumstances of the author's mind and not in his work. It seems rather pathetic, I mean, that this delicate humorist who added so much to the gaiety Of the nation, himself tired over-soon of humour, and lost prematurely his gaiety, and became a rather striking example of the ancient doctrine illustrated by Virgil and Wordsworth and other great masters of literature, that the literary man is rarely a good critic of himself and is rarely conscious him self when he is making literature and when he is murdering it.
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There is one peculiarity about these books with which I shall start. Humour and pathos smee Homer's time have generally gone hand-ih-hand, though the pathos may have been sometimes, as in Dickens's case, quite uneven and unequal to the humour, and overdone. In Lewis Carroll, however, though the humour is everywhere, the chief pathos lies in the circumstances of the author's mind and not in his work. It seems rather pathetic, I mean, that this delicate humorist who added so much to the gaiety Of the nation, himself tired over-soon of humour, and lost prematurely his gaiety, and became a rather striking example of the ancient doctrine illustrated by Virgil and Wordsworth and other great masters of literature, that the literary man is rarely a good critic of himself and is rarely conscious him self when he is making literature and when he is murdering it.
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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