Word: humouring
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PROFESSOR CAZAMIAN offers in his latest work a survey of the rise and growth of humour in the literature of England. His purpose is, as he says, strictly historical: he has no intention, on the first page, of explaining the phenomenon, and of illustrating it with numerous examples...
...gone no farther than the Age of Chaucer, however, before he gives himself the lie. By his own statement the Old English period of Beowulf and the riddles possessed nothing which could be called humour. Even Chaucer's humour, as he points out, has little or nothing with the modern form. Modern humour, he says, "hardly came into its own till the Renaissance; prior to that time, the mental complexity which it requires was not very widely diffused...
...denying to the age with which he is dealing, in this first part of his work, any claims to humour as we know it today, he leaves the reader with the impression that the book is but the foundation for that which is to follow. Let us hope for an early appearance of Part II: we have little interest in the "humour" of early times. Chaucer is the single exception, the one writer whose work stands...
This type of painting developed in the seventeenth century and is characterized by its broad, vigorous treatment in contrast to the delicacy of the Ukiyoe and its naivete and sense of humour. The Otsue were the forerunners of the Japanese print of the seventeenth century...
...responsible for the purloining of the famous Yale antique had any conception of the really serious furore which the event is reported to have caused in New Haven. It is certainly to be hoped that those who consider themselves directly offended by the incident will preserve sufficient sense of humour to prevent any such consequences as are hinted at by the alarmists of the professional press...