The book Our Literary Deluge And Some of Its Deeper Waters was written by author Halsey Francis Whiting Here you can read free online of Our Literary Deluge And Some of Its Deeper Waters book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Our Literary Deluge And Some of Its Deeper Waters a good or bad book?
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They could literally observe the Horatian warning not to publish until "the ninth ripening moon. " The business of writing books has not always been an outcome of high personal character. There have been great poets, successful novelists, and ac- complished essayists whose characters bore no impor- tant relation to their literary performances ; their characters often seemed, in fact, to belie their per- formances, making an understanding of their work difficult. But the men who have written mem...orable histories have almost invariably been men of distinct personal worth. We may recall the great list from Thucydides to Tacitus, from Clarendon to Hume, i33 134 0UR LITERARY DELUGE from Gibbon to Macaulay, from Motley to Prescott, from Parkman to Bancroft. Not a few historians have seemed greater than their works, the work only a partial manifestation of the man. All through their writings the man has been writ large. One sees laborious research, restraint in utterance, the repose of conscious strength ; now the action of power, now its silence.
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