Ephemera Critica; or Plain Truths about Current Literature
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1511947446 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 380 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Collins is “drefful” angry. Collins fixes the indignant gaze of his microscopic eye. Saintsbury, with Mr. Suppose you want to know what Mr. Saintsbury for saying that Wordsworth has ‘echoing detonation, and the auroral light of true poetry’; and with Mr. Gosse, with Mr. He's dreadfully learned, and if it hadn't been for him nobody would ever have known that Tennyson was a pla—a—giarist. Yet the papers in this volume are reprinted from current periodicals. The first line of the preface is: “IT IS TIME TO SPEAK OUT,” which is as if Mr. You turn to p. “All,” we are told, “have been carefully revised.” Surely so faultless a critic, who pillories Mr. 211), obviously a reference to the columns of the Saturday Review. We remark upon it because the first line of his preface gave us the thrill that ladies are supposed to feel when they see in a shop window a confection labeled le dernier cri. Churton Collins from the bearded veterans on the dais, whisper, regardless of grammar: “That's him: He's the only one with an intimate acquaintance with classical literature. Don’t let him see that you’re looking, for he's the fiercest of the Saturday Reviewlions, and, let me write it or we may be overheard, he's a reviewer with a conscience. Collins should see that the building in which he lives (best glass, you may be sure!) is well protected. As to dates, oh, my dear! And t