Literary Essays Among My Books, My Study Windows, Fireside Travels, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Literary Essays Among My Books, My Study Windows, Fireside Travels, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint) written by James Russell Lowell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Literary Essays Among My Books, My Study Windows, Fireside Travels, Vol. 1 of 4 The greater part of the literary and critical essays here collected was originally written as lectures for an audience consisting not only of my own classes but also of such other members of the University as might choose to attend them. This will account for, if it do not excuse, a more rhe torical tone in them here and there than I should have allowed myself had I been writing for the eye and not for the ear. They were meant to be suggestive of certain broader principles Of criti cism based on the comparative study of literature in its large meaning, rather than methodically ped agogic, to stimulate rather than to supply the place of individual study. This was my deliberate in tention, but I am sensible that it may have been in a manner forced upon me by my own limitations; for, though capable Of whatever drudgery in ac quisition, I am by temperament impatient of de tail in communicating what I have acquired, and too Often put into a parenthesis or a note conclu sions arrived at by long study and reflection when perhaps it had been wiser to expand them, not tovi prefa tory note TO the essays. 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.