Word: author
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Yesterday's CRIMSON contained an attack upon the English department which seems to me very questionable, not to say unjust. The writer has left no doubt as to what course he attacks; it is, of course, English 8, and the author assailed is Byron. I believe the writer to be in the wrong when he says that too much time is given to rehearsing the petty incidents of an author's life; for what is there that so excites an interest in an author as to obtain a knowledge of his private life, and then to observe...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - While not wishing to seem a grumbler on principle, I think a word against the practice, too common in our English department, of tediously dwelling on the life of an author and rehearsing all the small talk about his actions, might be well-timed; especially, when this practice is allowed to become detrimental to the impartment of a critical knowledge of the said author's works. Short enough time is given in a half course to acquire even a superficial acquaintance with the best writings of our authors of this century; so let us not detract from...
This effect can never be obtained from the printed works of an author, familiarity with which often blunts our perception in their most important parts, in reviews for examination. The attention is more painful than pleasant in this kind of "grinding," - while our notes are not only reminders, as remarked above, but statements put in the best shape for our individual minds. For these reasons "printed notes," etc. never give the same results as those of the student himself, and are to be reprehended inasmuch as they offer a loop-hole for the man who is too lazy to take...
...many of the college stories have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what he has neither seen nor felt. Of course you can often relate what you have not actually beheld; but still you must have something on which to base your ideas; you must have before you a real fact or passion which you may idealize...
...tellers have written clearly and feelingly of the everyday life about them, - a life which they knew thoroughly. The number of men who have succeeded in other lines of narration can be counted upon the fingers. To tell about something very sad and awful may possibly benefit a young author, because it is exercise for his imagination; it may even amuse him. But generally it neither benefits nor amuses anyone else. There is one Poe, and one Hawthorne; and their mantles have not fallen promiscuously on all undergraduates...