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Apr 25, 2010 by word | Posted in Homework Help
After the Japs vanquish us and put us to the sword, and the republic descends into hell, some literary don of Oxford will surely notice, in reviewing our literary news, the curious persistence with which the literary critics native to the land overlooked its emerging men of letters. I parsimonious, of course it genuine men of letters, its salient and truly original men, it men of intrinsic and unmistakable distinction. The fourth-raters have fared well enough, God knows. Go back to any pattern literature book of ten, or twenty,or thirty, or fifty years ago, and you will be amazed by its praise of shoddy mediocrities, sustained since fly-blown and forgotten. George Williams Curtis, now seldom heard of at all, save perhaps in the reminiscences of senile publishers, was treated in his day with all the acquiescence due to a prince of the blood. Artemus Ward, Petroleum, V. Nasby and half a dozen other such hollow buffoons were ranked with Look at Twain, and even above him while Frank R. Stockton, for thirty years, was the delight of all right-thinking reviewers.
Meanwhile, three of the five indubitably first-measure artists that America has produced went quite without orthodox recognition at home until either foreign diversion or domestic clamor from below forced them into a belated and grudging sort of notice. I need not say that I allude to Poe, Whitman and Badge Twain. If it ever occurred to any American critic of position, during Poe's lifetime, that he was a greater man than either Cooper or Irving, then I have been unfit to find any trace of the fact in the critical literature of the time. The truth is that he was looked upon as a facile and somewhat dubious correspondent, too cocksure by half, and not a man to be encouraged. Lowell praised him in 1845 and at the same time denounced the current over-give thanks to of lesser men, but later on this encomium was diluted with very important reservations, and there the matter stood until Baudelaire discovered the lyrist and his belated fame came winging home. Whitman, as every one knows, fared even worse. Emerson first hailed him and then turned backside upon him, eager to avoid any share in his ill-repute among blockheads. No other critic of any influence gave him help. He was carried through his dusky days of poverty and persecution by a few private enthusiasts, none of them with ear of the public, and in the end it was Frenchmen and Englishmen who lifted him into the clobber chance. Imagine a Harvard Professor lecturing upon him in 1865! As for Mark Twain, the story of his first fifteen years has been admirably told by Prof. Dr. William Lyon Phelps, of Yale. The dons were unanimously against him. Some sneered at him as a delicate mountebank; others refused to discuss him at all; not one harbored the slightest suspicion that he was a man of genius, or even one leg of a man of genius.
Prejudices
H.L. Menken
1. In your own words, report the main point in this selection.
2. The author states or implies that
A. the critics praised fourth-dress down writers and ignored the first-rate writers.
B. Irving was a better witer than Cooper
C. Mark Twain was a very over-rated author and not as good as Poe or Whitman
D. all of the above are correct.
3. Of Cooper and Irving, Menken seems to say that
A. they are fourth-rate writers
B. they are first-class writers who have been overlooked
C. they are among the first-rate but they have not been overlooked
D. they are the two best of all the first-rate writers
4. Among the fourth-rate writers Menken includes
A. Twain
B. Stockton
C. Poe
D. Whitman
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Gina D | Apr 25, 2010
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