The Unconscious Humourist: And Other Essays (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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IN the history of the world, as in the history of individual man, each age will have its own especial type of literature. The favourite may co-exist with several others, but it will none the less be the favourite. At the present time it is clear that the commonest mode of expres sion is in the novel, and I suppose that the age - in England at all events - is gradually drifting in the direction of lyric poetry, con joined with the short sketch or story. The epic and the drama may be safely regarded as tranced, or even dead. History has a fair hold on the educated. The essay, in its various forms, still breaks out sporadically now and again, stray flowerets from a seeding long dis continued, or like the rare sparks flying from a burnt-out firebrand.

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