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MARTIN SECKER'S SERIES OF MODERN MONOGRAPHS
J.M. SYNGE By P.P. Howe
HENRIK IBSEN By R. Ellis Roberts
WALTER PATER By Edward Thomas
THOMAS HARDY By Lascelles Abercrombie
GEORGE GISSING By Frank Swinnerton
WALT WHITMAN By Basil de Sélincourt
WILLIAM MORRIS By John Drinkwater
A.C. SWINBURNE By Edward Thomas
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PERSONALITY IN LITERATURE
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
MODERNISM AND ROMANCE
PERSONALITY IN LITERATURE
By R.A. SCOTT-JAMES
LONDON: MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
First published 1913
WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH.
CONTENTS
PART ONE: LITERATURE AND ART PAGE
THE DEGRADATION OF BEAUTY 3
LITERATURE A FINE ART 14
PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT 42
THE POPULAR TASTE 55
PART TWO: LITERATURE AND MODERN LIFE
TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY 81
PROFESSIONAL POLITICS 96
SPECIALISM IN RELIGION 103
SPECIALISM IN WAR 109
SPECIALISM IN LITERATURE 115
PHILOSOPHY AND JUSTICE 121
PART THREE: LITERATURE AND MEN
BERNARD SHAW 131
H.G. WELLS 151
ARNOLD BENNETT 170
GILBERT CHESTERTON 187
SOME MODERN POETS 196
J.M. SYNGE 222
THE SHRAMANA EKAI KAWAGUCHI 226
FRANCIS THOMPSON 235