Essays On Books
Essays On Books
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77 Donne's Sermons <:> o <:> o» THERE is a legend that Donne was the greatest of English preachers, but even those who read old books, even those who read his poetry, do not read his sermons. Mr. Pearsall Smith has made a selection from them and he begins by telling us why they are unread. There are very many of them, they are very long ; and Donne had " the unhappy faculty of developing to the utmost the faults of any form of literary expression he adopted. " The worst fault of the sermon, as l...<:><:>iterature, is that it is preaching. We make it a reproach against writers when they preach, not merely because preaching is out of place except in sermons, but because in itself it is disagreeable. We do not like a man who preaches, in the pulpit or out of it ; for in the process he ceases to be human — men are not born to preach to each other — he loses the good faith of the artist, he tells us not what he has to say, but what 78 Donne's Sermons he thinks we ought to hear. The convention of sermons changes, but it is never a good one ; it is always a giant's robe, awkwardly worn by men as dwarfish as the rest of us.
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77 Donne's Sermons <:> o <:> o» THERE is a legend that Donne was the greatest of English preachers, but even those who read old books, even those who read his poetry, do not read his sermons. Mr. Pearsall Smith has made a selection from them and he begins by telling us why they are unread. There are very many of them, they are very long ; and Donne had " the unhappy faculty of developing to the utmost the faults of any form of literary expression he adopted. " The worst fault of the sermon, as l...<:><:>iterature, is that it is preaching. We make it a reproach against writers when they preach, not merely because preaching is out of place except in sermons, but because in itself it is disagreeable. We do not like a man who preaches, in the pulpit or out of it ; for in the process he ceases to be human — men are not born to preach to each other — he loses the good faith of the artist, he tells us not what he has to say, but what 78 Donne's Sermons he thinks we ought to hear. The convention of sermons changes, but it is never a good one ; it is always a giant's robe, awkwardly worn by men as dwarfish as the rest of us.
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