Life and Art

As a contributing editor, Thomas Burke put together one of the more meaningful anthologies dealing with the issues of literary merits of great works of art. It is an anthology because Mr. Burke brought together the opinions and practices of many of the world’s great authors and artists of the last two centuries. Is there a true rather than a false novelist? How about major vs. minor poetry? What makes a true poet? What should be the inspiration of a poet? Does art have usefulness? How does a composer derive inspiration for his music? What makes one person a genius? These and many more questions surrounding the interrelationship between Life and Art as explored and explained by such accomplished writers, artists and composers as: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Browning, Leo Tolstoy, John Ruskin, John Keats, Frank Norris, Alfred Tennyson, Percy Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Butler, Thomas Carlyle, Henry van Dyke, Robert Schumann, Maurice Maeterlinck, Goethe, Beethoven, Millet, and several more.
First brought out by Edmund Brown, this anthology simply needs to be rescued for the benefit of the modern reader.