Alciphron

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Excerpt from Alciphron: Letters From the Country and the Town, of Fishermen, Farmers, Parasites and Courtesans Modern literature in all its forms is modelled on some Greek original. Even the novel, the most recent and as is often thought, the least derivative of its developments, cannot escape from this dependence. The prose romance is a Greek invention, the final gift of the Greek genius to the modern world. It is true that in the great age of Greece, romance, as we conceive it, was impossible, but Fortune did not allow the Greeks to perish until the garland was complete, and the novel is the brightest flower that the second blooming of Greek literature under the Roman Empire produced. A full explanation of the reasons why the romance comes thus last in time would involve a long inquiry into the attitude of classical authors towards nature, literary form, and women. Here a brief summary must suffice. One of the plainest proofs of the romantic spirit in literature is the realization of the intimate harmony that reigns between man and nature. It lifts the lover's pleasures and pains up from this gross worldly sphere and makes him at one with the great scheme of things: love becomes part of nature's mystery. 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.