On Native Grounds by Alfred Kazin

Author:Alfred Kazin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

No one can understand the theatre who sees it too intently from within; no one can serve it who does not, as it is today, hold it a little cheap.... Revolving stages, subtle lights, elaborate scenes are in their right order beautiful and useful things. They become a menace when they cause it to be forgotten that the platform is the platform of the eternal poet struggling with the mysteries of earth. This is not fine language; it is the plain and sober truth. But who will admit it?

Who did, indeed? Lewisohn’s style, usually a little too oily, always too intent upon the rolling period, the ceremonious, vaguely celestial epithet, had not yet expanded into the purely magisterial splendors of Expression in America. Nor did it conceal his sober good sense and salutary passion for that conception of criticism as spiritual scrutiny which Jules Lemaitre would have understood, but never George Jean Nathan; Alfred Kerr, but never Percy Hammond. Nathan, he remarked,

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