Prawfddarllenwyd y dudalen hon
- (b) Literature consists of the written thoughts and feelings of intelligent men and women, arranged in a way that shall give pleasure, to the reader. —STOPFORD BROOKE.
- (c) By letters or literature is meant the expression of thought in language, where by "thought" I mean the ideas, feelings, views, reasonings, and other operations of the human mind.—J. H. NEWMAN.
- (d) The representation . . . of a specific personality in its preference, its volition and power. Such is the matter of imagi—native or artistic literature, this trans—cript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinite variety, as modified by human preference in all its infinitely varied forms.—W. PATER.
- (e) Literature consists of all books . . . where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attractiveness of form. —J. MORLEY
- (f) Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition—EMERSON.
- (g) La littérature est l'art de la parole: :(a) la poésie :(b) l'art oratoire :(c) la prose écrite. —GAUCKLER.
