The Literary Discipline

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

I DECENCY IN LITERATURE

II ORIGINALITY IN LITERATURE

III THE CULT OF THE NATURAL

IV THE CULT OF THE CONTEMPORARY

V THE CHARACTERS PROPER TO LITERATURE

THE
LITERARY DISCIPLINE


OTHER BOOKS BY JOHN ERSKINE

THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO BE INTELLIGENT
and Other Essays

THE KINDS OF POETRY
and Other Essays

DEMOCRACY AND IDEALS

GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS
(With W. P. Trent)

POETRY

ACTÆON AND OTHER POEMS

THE SHADOWED HOUR

HEARTS ENDURING
A Play in one Scene

COLLECTED POEMS
1907-1922


THE
LITERARY DISCIPLINE

By
JOHN ERSKINE
Professor of English at Columbia University

NEW YORK
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
1923

Copyright, 1922, by the
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

Copyright, 1923, by
DUFFIELD & COMPANY

Printed in U. S. A.


TO
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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