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Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 1 - Robespierre)
John MorleyA French writer has recently published a careful and interesting volume on the famous events which ended in the overthrow of Robespierre and the close of the Reign of Terror. These events are known in..
Der Streit Über die Tragödie
Theodor LippsNo more than artistic activity, nor is our enjoyment of art conditioned by the intelligible insight into the reasons on which the work of art is based. And it's good that it behaves that way. If it we..
Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
AnonymousThe identity of the "Anonymous" of Some Remarks on Hamlet Prince of Denmark has never been established. The tradition that Hanmer wrote the essay had its highly dubious origin in a single unsupported ..
The Craft of Fiction
Percy LubbockThe Craft of Fiction is an important Criticism work by essayist, and literary critic Percy Lubbock. Lubbock's outlook in this publication is an obvious extension to that of Henry James and he works to..
The Land That Time Forgot
Edgar Rice BurroughsImagine an episode of Lost mixed with the movie Jurassic Park and you might have Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic book The Land That Time Forgot. Set during WWI, it features a German U-boat with British ..
We Philologists, Volume 8
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheTo what a great extent men are ruled by pure hazard, and how little reason itself enters into the question, is sufficiently shown by observing how few people have any real capacity for their professio..
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 2 - Carlyle)
John MorleyThe new library edition of Mr. Carlyle's works may be taken for the final presentation of all that the author has to say to his contemporaries, and to possess the settled form in which he wishes his w..
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 3 - Byron)
John MorleyIt is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution. Nowhere is the antipathy to princip..