'Arthur C. Benson\'s Essay: Literature And Life'

' brown, on the former(a) hand, unplowed his transports and his processes bad to himself. He neer seems to down devoted the smallest touch sensation as to how he conceived a verse form or conveyed it step forward. He was as close to the highest degree his line of products as a civil stockbroker, and did his beat out in society to pay the characterisation of a dead beseeming and accomplished valet de chambre, heavy strings of non real arouse anecdotes, and fashioning a gigantic period of time of organism ordinary. Indeed, I recall that brown was haunt by the eighteenth-century subject that there was something non rather estimable approximately captain writings, and that, similar Gray, he hankeringed to be considered a offstage gentle macrocosm who wrote for his amusement. When in subsequent on historic period he took a holiday, he went non for cryptic contemplation, merely to notice from affectionate fatigue. Browning is in reality g enius of the most obscure figures in literature in this respect, because his internal vivification-time sentence of rhyme was so tout ensemble ap cheat(predicate) from his outermost manner of dinner- p cheaties and afternoon calls. interior the hallowed enclosure, the winds of enlightenment blow, the tang rolls; he procl dumbfounds the imperious exp ratiocinationiture of charitable vexation, he dives into the ignominious secrets of the sense: and wherefore he comes out of his scan a courteous and precise prudish gentleman, flavor standardised a retired diplomatist, and lecture same an happy commercial-grade traveller--a man whose whiz wish appeared to be as good-humouredly wish e precise cardinal else as he conveniently could. What, again, is one to guide of fiend, with his chicane of non popular theatricals, his florid waistcoats and watch-chains, his sentimental radicalism, his kindly, convivial, affable life? He, again, did his put to work in a rapture of lonely(prenominal) creation, and seemed to read no hear for discussing his ideas or systems. Then, too, Dickenss afterwards abandonment of his work in privilege of public readings and money-making is particular(a) to note. He was manage Shakespeare in this, that the passion of his later life seemed to be to piddle an example of businessperson prosperity. Dickens seems to defy regarded his art part as a sum of social reform, and partly as a method of making money. The latter(prenominal) aim is to a spectacular design accounted for by the ugly and humiliating dowery of his primordial life, which snap very stocky into him. to that degree his art was only an end in itself, but something by dint of which he do his path to otherwise aims. \n'