VARIATIONS CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9780365446613 Géneros: AVC Sinópsis: Excerpt from VariationsComposed of essays written since the publication of his last book Bedouins though of necessity lacking the advantage of his personal selection and supervision Variations is a worthy companion of its shelffull of predecessors in its possession of these qualities Aptly named it presents perhaps better than any of them a widereaching diversity of aesthetic material for the consideration the illumina tion and preeminently the entertainment of the cultivated Perhaps too it shows a maturer treatment a mellower temper without a whit less energy and a greater opulence than ever of the authors stored acquisitions and spontaneous even exhilarated exposition of them And here and there amid the wealth of literary and aesthetic mis cellany which he displays and expounds one comes with greater frequency than ever upon memorable crystallizations of experience in the contemplation of these matters Such truths too he exemplifies as well as formulates No one ever for instance credited more completely his own maxim There is no disputing tastes with the tasteless or conformed more cordially to his own injunction Write only for the young The old will not heed you being weary of the pother of life and art There was nothing however of which he was less weary as this his last volume copiously attests and the explanation of course is his unimpaired youthfulness of mind and spiritAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart 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 i