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Analytics of Literature; A Manual for the Objective Study of English Prose and Poetry

Analytics of Literature; A Manual for the Objective Study of English Prose and Poetry

Sherman, Lucius Adelno

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ISBN10: 1151228583
ISBN13: 9781151228581
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.35 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1893 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXI. THE INTER-RELATIONS OF PROSE AND POETRY. It was pointed out in Chapter XVII. that there are two fundamental principles in the universe which the mind of each of us is bound to recognize and regard, --which principles are ultimate truth and ultimate beauty. Both these are but imperfectly apprehensible to the natural mind, but in so far as recognized produce the attitudes or modes of consciousness called respectively Duty and Delight. In the last chapter it was also indicated that the sum of all activities in society, whether in aesthetic, scientific, or industrial lines, are governed or inspired by motives belonging, in the last analysis, to the one category or the other. There is no piece of literature, properly so called, that is not the outcome of a purpose either to disseminate truth or impart enjoyment. The mind that has discerned truth in a Bacon's way will for truth's sake formulate it, and cast it in a shape available for present and after time. The seer that discerns ultimate truth in less conditioned forms, after the manner of an Emerson, is prompted to give to the world even his lesser illumination. So a Shakespeare or a Browning, who feels the exaltation of beauty, is moved to share it with his fellows, and receive the reward, or temporary opprobium, of being its exponent or apostle. All literature is, therefore, in an important sense sentiment-literature, and is in itself a record of what men have felt. But while Duty is deliberative and exhibited through some form of determination, Delight is spontaneous and eager. The literature of the imagination will be more sprightly and free than prose proper. We may look for dissimilarities in the form of prose and of poetry beyond mere rhyme and metre. We saw in Chapter II. that poetry aboun...

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