Essays on Literary Art

by Hiram M. Stanley

Overview

These essays are wrapped in a mist of scholarly predilection, so to call it, and there is a pleasant bookish influence in the reading. It is well-known to discriminating readers that the true essay has little in common with true criticism. Mr. Stanley is better equipped for writing essays than for making critiques. His taste is good, his style clear and strong: yet when he writes on "The Secret of Style" he plainly discloses that he does not know the difference between style and a scheme of diction. The opening paragraph of that essay embodies a curious fallacy-to wit, that laziness has been the basis of all progress-and the rest of the argument is scarcely better founded. His essay on Thoreau's prose is very stimulating; so is the paper on Wordsworth. We point out this little book as one smacking of good literature.

-The Independent, Volume 51 [1899]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663528407
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/07/2020
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)