tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post3123394685537476983..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Any Book That Is Wiser Than Yourself'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-393975081348090712018-04-15T15:34:31.580-05:002018-04-15T15:34:31.580-05:00Art is not the same thing as cerebration. I imagi...<i>Art is not the same thing as cerebration. I imagine that by<br />any test that could be devised, Carlyle would be found to be a more<br />intelligent man than Trollope. Yet Trollope has remained readable and<br />Carlyle has not: with all his cleverness he had not even the wit to<br />write in plain straightforward English.<br />-- George Orwell, in _Tribune_, 2 November 1945</i><br /><br /><i>Carlyle is a poet to whom nature has denied the faculty of verse.<br />-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, letter to W. E. Gladstone, c.1870<br /><br />The words in Carlyle seem electrified into an energy of lineament, like the faces of men furiously moved.<br />-- Robert Louis Stevenson, On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature</i><br /><br />The Sanity Inspectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.com