The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry

by Alfred Austin

Book Overview

The decay of authority is one of the most marked features of our time. Religion, politics, art, manners, speech, even morality, considered in its widest sense, have all felt the waning of traditional authority, and the substitution for it of individual opinion and taste, and of the wavering and contradictory utterances of publications ostensibly occupied with criticism and supposed to be pronouncing serious judgments. By authority I do not mean the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517681545
• ISBN13: 9781517681548
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"