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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Literature as an art. (search)
uranne, says well, that, for what he calls the academic class — or class devoted to pure literature — there is as yet no place in America. Such a class must as yet conceal itself, he says, beneath the politician's garb, or the clergyman's cravat. We may observe that, when our people speak of literature, they are very apt to mean a newspaper article, or perhaps a sermon, or a legal plea. One editor said that it could no longer be asserted that literature was ill paid in America, since Governor Andrew had received ten thousand dollars for an argument against the prohibitory liquor law. Even in our largest cities, there are scarcely the rudiments of a literary class, apart from the newspapers. Now, journalism is an invaluable outlet for the leisure time of a literary man but his main work must be given to something else, or his vocation must change its name. He needs the experience of journalism, as he needs that of the lyceum and the caucus,--nay, as he needs the gymnasium and the