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Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature

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A collection of critical essays diagnoses a perceived decline in literary standards and argues that literature lacks the institutional organization and rigor found in the sciences. The author criticizes university indifference, sloppy scholarship, and self-promoting guides while urging reforms in teaching and editorial responsibility. Interspersed with polemic are measured studies of critical principles and of poets and translators, and thematic pieces on landscape, religion in drama, classical poetry, and the emergence of new critical fashions. The volume combines polemic, close reading, and practical proposals intended to raise standards of judgment and instruction in letters.





Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.


Corrections:

Page 81 Hamlet, act iv. sc .1 should be sc. 5   (There is pansies)

The following errors have been corrected in the text.

Page 8   changed Jasserand to Jusserand   (done M. Jusserand grave injustice)

Page 63   added space   (Addington Symonds)

Page 90   added single quotes   (The rest is silence.' 'O, O,)

Page 90   changed than to that   (it would be more natural that)

Page 96-7   moved double quotes from   (evicit gurgite moles,") to end of last line (armenta trahit.")

Page 97   added opening double quotes   ("Not sa fersly)

Page 101   added double quotes   (Lord, 1790." A Letter to)

Page 107   changed ") to )"   (teeth of its subject)". "His voluminous)

Page 184   added comma   (and the few outsiders, whether)

Page 205   added single quote   (Warburton on Shakespeare.'")

Page 212   added comma   (every alley green,)

Page 252   changed charactistic to characteristic   (distinctive feature is the characteristic)

Page 321   changed comma to period   (both these questions.)

Page 326   changed period to semicolon   (Britain's wide domain;)

The following errors have been corrected in the index.

Benecke changed 255 to 283

Bentley changed 156 to 160

Chaucer changed 8 to 6

De Quincey; his comparative failure changed 305 to 204

Gibbon changed 198 to 195

Gower; Confessio Amantis changed 196 to 195

Macaulay changed 145: 151 to 141: 155

Pater changed 62 to 63

Persius changed 15 to 158

Pope; quoted changed 139 to 138

Schipper changed 183 to 187

Swift; Tale of a Tub changed 144 to 149

Wharton changed 148 to 152

The following inconsistencies have been left as printed.

bookmaker vs. book-maker vs. book maker

rodomontade vs. rhodomontade

Wriothesley vs. Wriothesly

analysed vs. analyzed

Mort d'Arthur vs. Morte d'Arthur

Quinctilian vs. Quintilian
(Quintilia (Latin Quintiliæ) is a different person)