Constrained Attitudes
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217912396
Paperback|9780217912396
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in RUSTICITY AND CONTEMPLATION Sensitive folk, who shudder at the bustling modern spirit, majorities, millionaires, motor cars, popular fiction, Sunday newspapers, imperialism, giant strides, nervous tension, machinery and like matters, who think the love of beauty dead or dying, art on the wane, Culture a forlorn hope, and taste commercially tainted, might take heart if they would look about and count the equally sensitive noses. They are a minority, to be sure, but a lusty one and exceedingly voluble. Consider the journalism of gentle contemplation. I have lately read more tender little open-air reveries, praises of Nature, praises of the soul, primrose reflections, shy musings, upland dreams than I could mention, some of them in books, some in the magazines, but many of them in the newspapers, even the coarse, pragmatical, money- minded newspapers. The journalism of gentle contemplation has become a profession in itself. Consider the remarkable increase and multiplication of good little Professor Wood- side alone. Add to the books written by Professor Woodside the books that might as well have been written by Professor Woodside; add to these the woodnotes and general reflections of all the periodicals, especially the quiet thoughts of British periodicals about friendship, eventide, charity, an old churchyard, downs, lanes, hedgerows, wild violets, choughs, rooks, rabbits, or a sunset?and the murmurs of quiet meditation will swell to something of a roar. For literary seclusion is wonderfully prolific and Nature has, these many years, been almost mobbed for rustic notes. They are formidable in numbers and of an amazing unanimity, these fugitives from vulgar modern majorities. There are hundreds of them writing as one man, and they are read by hundreds of thousands...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217912396 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217912397 |
| Weight | 0.29 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 80 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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