2009, ISBN: 9781103427987

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1919Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: English literatureHistory / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiter… Mehr…

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1919Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: English literatureHistory / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1919Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: English literatureHistory / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) Stevenson was not unaffected by the spiritual disturbances which assailed his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, but he succeeded in keeping the indications of them out of his published work. What he had to say met with almost universal acceptance in his own generation, and he said it with a verbal felicity and an engaging personal touch which won him immediate popularity. The next generation was inclined to deem contemporary eulogy of his work excessive, and perhaps to depreciate him unduly. His latest critic, Mr. Frank Swinnerton (' R.L. Stevenson, A Critical Study,' 1914) describes him as a poseur who exploited his charm. Well, if he were a poseur, he was a most ingenuous one, and if he exploited his charm, he must have had it. In an age of science and of realism, he revived the romantic manner of Scott in the novel and the personal manner of Lamb in the essay; and it is agreed that those who have continued the traditions since have run them into the ground. Mr. Swinnerton says that if romance is dead, "Stevenson killed it." It seems truer to say that he brought it, temporarily at least, to life again; and it is unjust to blame him for the lack of vitality in the work of his successors. Whether his own work is really alive, or merely imposed on his contemporaries by an appearance of vitality is another question which Mr. Swinnerton, Books, History~~General, English-Literature-During-The-Last-Half-Century~~John-William-Cunliffe, , , , , , , , , , BiblioBazaar<

ISBN: 9781103427987

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