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Lädt ... Prejudices: Second Seriesvon H. L. Mencken
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book is a good representative of why Mencken can be loved...and hated...no matter what side of the political spectrum you sit on. For many today, they are only able to quote Mencken by ignoring all the things he said that they vehemently disagree with. Never mind; he's always interesting, even when you want to pitch the book out the window. Well, maybe not quite always interesting. The first essay in this volume was a bit long-winded and not that interetsing, as many of his book critiques aren't. After that, it went uphill rapidly. As usual, packed with quotable quotes. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReihePrejudices (2)
IT is convenient to begin, like the gentlemen of God, with a glance at a text or two. The first, a short one, is from Ralph Waldo Emerson's celebrated oration, "The American Scholar," delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge on August 31st, 1837. Emerson was then thirtyfour years old and almost unknown in his own country, though he had already published "Nature" and established his first contacts with Landor and Carlyle. But "The American Scholar" brought him into instant notice at home, partly as man of letters but more importantly as seer and prophet, and the fame thus founded has endured without much diminution, at all events in New. England, to this day. Oliver Wendell Holmes, giving words to what was undoubtedly the common feeling, hailed the address as the intellectual declaration of independence of the American people, and that judgment, amiably passed on by three generations of pedagogues, still survives in the literature books. I quote from the first paragraph: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. . . . Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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