9/28/2023 0 Comments Edwin watts new yorkIt is not well to place our literary lights upon a pedestal so lofty that the radiating warmth and light never reach our hearts. Of knowledge such as this is the kingdom of literary interest. Johnson grows in interest when I learn that he found it a continual and almost hopeless struggle to become an early riser, that he feared death, and could drink tea as long as the housekeeper could brew it that Tennyson was a slave to tobacco and acted like a yokel when the newly-wedded Müllers entertained him at breakfast does not detract from my enjoyment of the exquisite pathos of Tears, Idle Tears that the marriage of the Brownings was a runaway romance is a whole commentary of explanation when I read their poems of romantic love that Longfellow is said to have declined an invitation to the Adirondacks because he was told that Emerson was to carry a gun is really far more delightful, and I may add valuable, information than to know the exact date of the birth of either. I like Macaulay none the less because his cock-sureness and loquacity came dangerously near to making him a bore Dr. This does not mean, however, that one dare never see the weaker side, the foibles and eccentricities of the man of genius. To show the excellences of the art and the lovableness of the artist rather than to hunt for defects is the duty and the delight of the teacher of literature. But what an aid such a collection is to the appreciation of literature! The dignified and abbreviated history of literature cannot indulge in such delightful gossip as is found in the freer essay and fuller biography. Few schools have libraries including the bound volumes of the magazines of the past quarter of a century. The purpose of this book is to help in making literature and the makers of literature alive and interesting. For a complete list, please see theĬlick on the images to see a larger version.įrom a portrait in Occleve's Poems in the British Museum ToList Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved. The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Jeannie Howse and *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUTHORS, BRITISH AND AMERICAN *** With this eBook or online at Title: Stories of Authors, British and American Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stories of Authors, British and American, by
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