by Belloc · Cluster: Familiar Essay · Paradox · The Common Man
Abstract
Belloc’s introductory essay to Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung’s Golden Hours, praising the book as a rare instance of deliberate, achieved construction amid the slipshod, unconstructed writing of the modern age. It argues that construction and economy are the fundamental conditions of excellent and enduring literature.
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Forms & Genres: Essay, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Creativity, Artist and Society, Immortality of Art Fame, Critique of Progress, Beauty Motifs: The Book, Letters and Writing Historical References: Robert Blatchford Archetypes: The Writer Topoi: Immortality Through Verse
Also relevant to: Self-Knowledge · Immortality · Self-Reliance