Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy
It is the fashion of the day for the literary censors to decry the decadence of English letters. They bewail the utter banality of best sellers, and sometimes almost shed tears because no one is essaying real literature. All of which is quite touching. But woe to the unfortunate who takes any of this seriously, and addresses himself to letters for art's sake. Moved by that splenetic resentment on which both Pope and Byron had occasion to comment, they are immediately upon him with such outpourings of venom as small minds have always found useful to conceal their own vapidness - or prostitution.
Into this situation, a new author intrudes, with his offering of a tragedy, in the classic style. The venture calls for courage.
We open the book with, say, tolerance. And What do we find in its pages?
A dramatic work that breathes questions, thoughts, perplexities, struggles that are as old as humanity. The writer, we soon discover, is no maudlin sentimentalist.
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