Night and Morning

Excerpt from the Preface: Much has been written by critics, especially by those in Germany, (the native land of criticism,) upon the important question, whether to please or to instruct should be the end of Fiction-whether a moral purpose is or is not in harmony with the un�didactic spirit perceptible in the higher works of the imagination: And the general result of the discussion has been in favor of those who have contended that Moral design, rigidly so called, should be excluded from the aims of the Poet; that his Art should regard only the Beautiful, and be contented with the indi�rect moral tendencies, which can never fail the crea�tion of the Beautiful.

• ISBN-13: 9781598389128
• 760 pages
• Paperback: 5 x 8 inches