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Title: An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times

Author: Thomas Hill Green

Editor: Fred Newton Scott

Release Date: March 17, 2007 [EBook #20843]

Language: English

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_Thomas Hill Green_

_An Estimate of The Value and Influence

Of

Works of Fiction In Modern Times_

_Edited With Introduction and Notes

By

Fred Newton Scott

Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan_

_George Wahr
Ann Arbor
Michigan
1911_

COPYRIGHT

FRED NEWTON SCOTT

1911

THE ANN ARBOR PRESS
ANN ARBOR, MICH.

PREFACE

_For a good many years I have used this essay of Green's with an
advanced class in the theory of prose fiction. It has worked well. It
always arouses discussion, and in doing so it has the great virtue that
it imperiously leads the argument away from superficialities and centers
it upon fundamentals. Its service as a stimulus to high thinking cannot
easily be overestimated. For any student, and especially for one who has
known only the unidea'd criticism of fiction so popular today, it is a
fine thing to come in contact with a high-minded, sturdy, and
uncompromising thinker such as Green is. As Green says of the hearer of
tragedy,_ "He bears about him, for a time at least, among the rank
vapors of the earth, something of the freshness and fragrance of the
higher air." _I trust that this reprint, by making the essay more easily
accessible than it has been heretofore, will help to raise the grade of
student thought and taste and criticism.