DEFECT OF MODERN LITERATURE
“ ’The real defect of contemporary English literature, when we measure it against any accepted literary classic of any period, is lack of vision,” writes Mr John Gatehouse, in the ‘ Socialist Review.’ “ The vision of a writer—and every writer, poet, novelist, or dramatist, must have vision—is, in its reverse aspect, his sense of reality, his capacity not only to understand the basic issues in the society of which he writes, but also to sense something deeper, more fundamental than .this, to present problems and work out experiences which will always concern men, whatever the particular structure of the civilisation in which they live. In all cases where man has aspired to highest literary effort we are conscious of this dual aspect of a writer’s vision, his sense of the immediate realities or a situation, and his power to super impose upon that situation conceptions of human behaviour which transcend, in significance, the limitations of a particular structure of society.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 21
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162DEFECT OF MODERN LITERATURE Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 21
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