The Ethics of Literary Art

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Excerpt from The Ethics of Literary Art: The Carew Lectures for 1893 Hartford Theological Seminary The matter of the following pages was delivered in three lectures, and it will not be hard for the reader to find the lines of division. A different plan might have been followed had my purpose originally been a book. Still I have not felt it necessary to recast any part of the work, and in arbitrarily dividing my discussion into three parts, it came easy to make Conception, Composition, and Expression stand, in the order named, as themes for successive treatment. No careful reader will need to be told that my aim has been at suggestion, and that I have not hesitated to sacrifice the graces of diction in order to say with fewest words what might have been turned to excellent account in the way of mere literature. My subject covers the whole field of morals for life and literature cannot be separated so as to say that what is vicious in life is harmlessly delectable in literature. We live life to enjoy it, we make and read literature to enjoy it. In either case enjoyment is not necessarily a light matter. 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.