Essays in Literature and History

Essays in Literature and HistoryFroude had this merita merit he shared with Huxley alone of His contemporariesthat...
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Author: Froude, James Anthony,1818-1894
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Language: English
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Essays in Literature and History

Essays in Literature and History

€6,32

Essays in Literature and History

€6,32
Author: Froude, James Anthony,1818-1894
Format: eBook
Language: English

Essays in Literature and History

Froude had this merita merit he shared with Huxley alone of His contemporariesthat he imposed his convictions. He fought against resistance. He excited (and still excites) a violent animosity. He exasperated the surface of his time and was yet too strong for that surface to reject him. This combative and aggressive quality in him, which was successful in that it was permanent and never suffered a final defeat should arrest any one who may make a general survey of the last generation in letters. It was a period with a vice of its own which yet remains to be detected and chastised. In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack. None of these affected the Victorian era. It was purethough tainted with a profound hypocrisy; it was singularly free from violence in its judgments; it was certainly alive and new: but it had this grievous defect (a defect under which we still labour heavily) that thought was restrained upon every side. Never in the history of European letters was it so difficult for a man to say what he would and to be heard. A sort of cohesive public spirit (which was but one aspect of the admirable homogeneity of the nation) glued and immobilised all individual expression. One could float imprisoned as in a stream of thick substance: one could not swim against it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 18276
Author: Froude, James Anthony
Release Date: Apr 28, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

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