Appreciation of Literature, And America in Literature
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In the old literature the national tradition and morality were concentrated in the history, real or imaginary, of the aristocratic class with but slight popular elements, and this was handed down in poetry 88 APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE and chronicle and tale; but with the coming of modern democracy the popular life itself came into the field of interest, and literature giving more and more attention to the citizen life ended by assigning to the common lot of men the place which has formerly bee...n held by the aris- tocracy. The democratizing of literature which began with Richardson and Fielding, in the novel, and with Burns and Wordsworth, in poetry, resulted in the last century in England in a representation of life in all its classes, provinces, and interests, such as no civilization had ever before placed on record about itself. The read- ing class was democratic, and men like to read about themselves, to see their own lives reflected, their opinions expressed, and their ideals defined; they also desire in- formation about the way other men live whose modes of behavior and thought, though they may be members of the same society, are not well or intimately known; a public thus came into existence for which the minute and detailed portrayal of all sorts and conditions of English- men, and of every nook of English ground, was interest- ing.
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