On Literary Tact
Martin, Abbott C.
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By ABBOTT C. MARTIN
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A an interval of nearly a hundred years, has given rise...
...Tact, it would seem, so far from being a "strange criterion...
...dice...
...The aristocrats of the old...
...better not come at all...
...If Carlyle had been...
...much, even in their literary judgments, and tact is the means...
...Mencken...
...It has been suggested, in the introduction to Cooper's book...
...poems...
...To Keats it was a joy forever...
...if this is owing to Shelley's poetry, I think more credit...
...For the lords who lay ye low...
...ary art can save his works from oblivion...
...Nor is it necessarily noble...
...It is not innately noble if the aim...
...It will be re...
...unfavorable reviews both in England and America...
...prevent a hardening of the arteries...
...Tact is to a book what good manners...
...drones...
...Or...
...An honest aristocrat, blind, if you please, but sincere...
...The rich robes your tyrants wear...
...they seem to me effectively...
...achieved without tact...
...If...
...prejudices and became ardent Shelleyans in the sequel...
...On the...
...Mencken on one occasion the little maxim of...
...The pres...
...Drain your sweat—nay, drink your blood...
...happy in the use of it...
...with a generation that can now tolerate a Mencken...
...remember his comments on Carlyle...
...Is one to imagine that the authorities...
...by Mr...
...demand that a literary work be written with tact...
...But we must not make the mistake...
...forego that quality denotes a general disregard of the question...
...gland on the ground that it wanted tact...
...A an interval of nearly a hundred years, has given rise to...
...Most of those characteristics which of...
...Mencken has no tact...
...He sug...
...ignores the problems which he attempted to solve, or rejects...
...We have seen too much of Boards...
...social and literary tact...
...are not surprised to discover a certain aggressiveness and want...
...may by his forcefulness and his timeliness cause his writings...
...From the cradle to the grave...
...but he fights in a different manner from the mercenary, from...
...Carlyle's explosiveness has lost its old...
...for contumacy" as Arnold tells us...
...least of good writing that will live by its literary worth alone...
...thoughts would have remained unspoken...
...was considered a want of tact oh the part of the author, the...
...progress...
...presses this force, which helps the middle classes fight their...
...that if Carlyle had been tactful, many of his most striking...
...terature...
...lectual revolutions...
...Truth is no quarrel, beauty is no...
...a necessary weapon, perhaps, in the face of the ob...
...Readers of Quiller...
...literature is a quarrel...
...literary work...
...New people assume the power and the...
...The lack of it might lead to the dismissal of...
...quoted...
...become careless of tact, it has never known it...
...longer engages our interest...
...applied to Mr...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 21
