Excerpt from The Passions of the French Romantics It will be observed - it is to be hoped that it will not be objected - that the present volume contains very little literary criticism. Any reader who will place himself for a moment at the author's point of view will perceive the reasons why it has been excluded. The principal reason is that there was no room for it; and, that being so, perhaps the other reasons do not matter. When one is telling a story, criticism is apt to get in the way and the more interesting the ...
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Excerpt from The Passions of the French Romantics It will be observed - it is to be hoped that it will not be objected - that the present volume contains very little literary criticism. Any reader who will place himself for a moment at the author's point of view will perceive the reasons why it has been excluded. The principal reason is that there was no room for it; and, that being so, perhaps the other reasons do not matter. When one is telling a story, criticism is apt to get in the way and the more interesting the story the more is the intrusion of criticism likely to be resented. An admirable work on the literature of the Romantic Movement has been written by Professor Brandes; and if the present work induces any fresh reader to refer to it, a useful purpose will have been served. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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