Bibliographical Notes On One Hundred Books Famous In English Literature Classic Reprint

Author : Richard Garnett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483686748
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The International Library of Famous Literature, Vol. 13 of 20 written by Richard Garnett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The International Library of Famous Literature, Vol. 13 of 20: Selections From the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, With Biographical and Explanatory Notes and Critical Essays IF we accept Bution's famous dictum, that the style is the man, it might be expected that the writings of men of science would be as ruggedly fact-bound, as unimaginative, as inartistic as science is usually supposed to be. Yet Bufi'on himself, famed as a writer a century ago, and remembered to-day chiefly for his mastery of literary style, was by profession a naturalist. His greater contem porary, Voltaire, the master litterateur of France, did not hesitate to pose as a master in science as well. Again, Dante, the one world classic of the Italian language, was learned in every phase of the known science of his time. Keats, one of the few writers of English whom critics have ventured to name in the same breath with Shakespeare, was trained to the profession of medicine. Goldsmith, famed for the lucidity of his verse and prose alike, was a practising physician. So was Schiller, the second poet of Germany; while his one master in that tongue, the incomparable Goethe, whose genius raised the German language to a new plans as a medium of literary expression, would be remembered as a discoverer in science had he never penned a page that could be called literature. Turning to America we find that Franklin, the one man who attained distinction as a writer in Colonial days, was equally distinguished as a scientist; and everyone will recall that in a later day the most genial of poets, Holmes, made literature only a staff, to quote his own happy phrase, his crutch being medicine, and his specialty anatomy, the veritable dry bones of medicine at that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.