George Henry Lewes Quotes About Literature
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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
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It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.
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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
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Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.
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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
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All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
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