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Two Cheers for Democracy: What I believe. Art in general: Anonymity: an enquiry ; Art for art's sake ; The duty of society to the artist ; Does culture matter? ; The raison d'etre of criticism in the arts ; The C minor of that life ; Not listening to music ; Not looking at pictures. The arts in action: John Skelton ; "Julius Caesar" ; The Stratford Jubilee of 1769 ; Gibbon and his "autobiography" ; Voltaire and Frederick the Great ; George Crabbe and Peter Grimes ; Bishop Jebb's book ; Henry Thornton ; William Arnold ; "Snow" Wedgwood ; William Barnes ; Three stories by Tolstoy ; Edward Carpenter ; Webb and Webb ; A book that influenced me ; Our second greatest novel? ; Gide and George ; Gide's death ; Romain Rolland and the hero ; A whiff of D'Annunzio ; Virginia Woolf ; Two books by T.S. Eliot ; "The ascent of F.6" ; "The enchafed flood" ; Forrest Reid ; English prose between 1918 and 1939 ; An outsider on poetry ; Mohammed Iqbal ; Syed Ross Masood ; A duke remembers ; Mrs. Miniver ; In my library ; The Lon

Two Cheers for Democracy: What I believe. Art in general: Anonymity: an enquiry ; Art for art's sake ; The duty of society to the artist ; Does culture matter? ; The raison d'etre of criticism in the arts ; The C minor of that life ; Not listening to music ; Not looking at pictures. The arts in action: John Skelton ; "Julius Caesar" ; The Stratford Jubilee of 1769 ; Gibbon and his "autobiography" ; Voltaire and Frederick the Great ; George Crabbe and Peter Grimes ; Bishop Jebb's book ; Henry Thornton ; William Arnold ; "Snow" Wedgwood ; William Barnes ; Three stories by Tolstoy ; Edward Carpenter ; Webb and Webb ; A book that influenced me ; Our second greatest novel? ; Gide and George ; Gide's death ; Romain Rolland and the hero ; A whiff of D'Annunzio ; Virginia Woolf ; Two books by T.S. Eliot ; "The ascent of F.6" ; "The enchafed flood" ; Forrest Reid ; English prose between 1918 and 1939 ; An outsider on poetry ; Mohammed Iqbal ; Syed Ross Masood ; A duke remembers ; Mrs. Miniver ; In my library ; The Lon

by Edward Morgan Forster

Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pages
363
Language
English
Published
1977

Overview

Essays that applaud democracy's toleration of individual freedom and self-criticism and deplore its encouragement of mediocrity: "We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two."

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