The book Poets And Novelists a Series of Literary Studies was written by author George Barnett Smith Here you can read free online of Poets And Novelists a Series of Literary Studies book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Poets And Novelists a Series of Literary Studies a good or bad book?
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It is so because there is nothing of the abstract about it which the mind of mankind generally abhors ; it is a record of the concrete existence of individuals like ourselves, and must there- fore be profitable both for amusement, interest, and guidance. A good novelist can scarcely be appreciated too highly. In this class we place Charlotte Bronte ; she fulfils the requirements glanced at already in the words of Mr. D'Israeli, and is in every respect a faithful delineator of the scenes and per...sons she professes to describe. How faithful, indeed, few can scarcely tell, but the mass can darkly feel it on close acquaintance with her. The charge of coarseness brought against her works she herself indignantly repelled, but the base notion of such a charge must have cruelly wounded her spirit, which, though strong and brave as a lion, was yet pure and tender as that of a child. She said, ' I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression I may have, before He lets me become blind to the sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said.
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