...comedy. — 88. There are plain reasons why the comic poet is not a frequent apparition ... Л society or cultivated men and women is required, wherein ideas...current and the perceptions quick, that he may be suppliai with matter and an audience. The semibarbarism of merely giddy communities . . . repel him...

...are plain reasons why the cpmic poet is not a frequent apparition ... A society of cultivuted inen and women is required, wherein ideas are current and the perceptions quick, that he may be snppliea with matter and an audience. The semibarbarism of merely giddv communities . . . repel him...

...February ist, 1877, and afterwards published in 'The New Quarterly Magazine' for April, 1877. fellow. A society of cultivated men and women is required,...also a state of marked social inequality of the sexes ; nor can he whose business is to address the mind be understood where there is not a moderate degree...

...on civilization as reflected in literature. The Great Comic Poet is a " raro apparition," because " a society of cultivated men and women is required,...that he may be supplied with matter and an audience." Meredith tells us at the start that you never find the real comic spirit in semi-barbarous communities,...

...required wherein ideas are current and of some duration, and the perceptions quick that the humorist may be supplied with matter and an audience. "The...giddy communities, and feverish emotional periods' ' create no humor. Quaintness in language, as in other things, gives a tinge of humor. A description...

...in order to furnish both the conditions and the material for humor. George Meredith1 has urged that a society of cultivated men and women is required wherein ideas are current and of some duration, and the perceptions quick that the humorist may be supplied with matter and an audience....

...with great nicety the laws that govern it, and I cannot do better than quote a few sentences — \ A society of cultivated men and women is required...also a state of marked social inequality of the sexes ; nor can he whose business is to address the mind be understood ' where there is not a moderate degree...

...apparition; and why the great Comic poet remains without a fellow. A society of cultivated men A.nH wo,men is required, wherein ideas are current and...a state of marked social inequality of the sexes; nor can he whose business is to address the mind be understood where there is not a moderate degree...

...the Comic poet is not a frequent apparition; and why the great Comic poet remains without a fellow. A society of cultivated men and women is required,...a state of marked social inequality of the sexes; nor can he whose business is to address the mind be understood where there is not a moderate degree...

...society of cultivated men and women is required, wherein ideas are current and the perceptions'quick, that he may be supplied with matter and an audience....also a state of marked social inequality of the sexes ; nor can he whose business is to address the mind be understood where there is not a moderate degree...