GOLDEN AGE A Satire (classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Golden Age: A Satire A writer has so few fitting opportunities of address ing his readers on the subject of his own compositions, that the author of The Golden Age trusts he will be pardoned for seizing this occasion to make the follow ing brief observations. Though partly retrospective, they would not have been expressed at all but for their bearing on his future designs. It is just ten years since he published The Sea son, and he has no reason to complain of the recep tion accorded to it both then and since, especially when he reflects that its literary method aud'its ethical aim are diametrically opposed to the form and purpose of those poetical compositions for which the taste of our day has shown so decided a partiality. But, about a twelvemonth after the first appearance of The Sea son, he ventured to submit to the public a longer and more ambitious work, entitled The Human Tragedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.