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【英文文学】这篇文章作者是什么态度,
Humor as a solid quality and a lucrative trade is of modern invention.The great men who dared to laugh in an earlier age than ours laughed in moderation and with a wise purpose.Aristophanes,Shakespeare,and Chaucer are the true humorists of our world.They did not jest out of season.Their humor is precious on accountof its parsimony.They do not at every turn slap their readers on theback and assure them that there is nothing congruous inthe visible world.Of the irreverence that turns whateveris beautiful or noble into astupid jest they knew nothing.They kept their humor in its proper place; they used it for a wise purpose; they did not degrade it to catchan easy round of applause; and,fortunatelyfor them,they are today refusedthe august title of humorist,which sits soaptlyupon the shoulders of Mark Twain.
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected.The modern humorist is never unexpected.Hebeats the drum from the moment at which he appears upon the stage.Mark Twain brings whatever time has honored down to the level of a Yankee drummer.He finds every custom ridiculous that does not conform with thestandard of the United States.He holds his sides when hethinks of the old masters.Nor does he understand that there are certain manifestations of genius which should be sacred even for the jester.In other words,Mark Twain the humorist is a bull in the china shop of ideas.When,as in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,he gave full rein to his fancy,he achieved such a masterpiece of vulgarity as the world has never seen.His book gives you the same sort of impression which you might receive from a beautiful picture over which a poisonous slug had crawled.The hint of magnificence is there,pitilessly deformed and defaced.And it is the more pitiful because he has a talent which stands in need of no folly for its embellishment.Had he never cut a joke,had he refrained always from grinning at grave and beautiful things,how brilliant a fame would have been his!
Humor as a solid quality and a lucrative trade is of modern invention.The great men who dared to laugh in an earlier age than ours laughed in moderation and with a wise purpose.Aristophanes,Shakespeare,and Chaucer are the true humorists of our world.They did not jest out of season.Their humor is precious on accountof its parsimony.They do not at every turn slap their readers on theback and assure them that there is nothing congruous inthe visible world.Of the irreverence that turns whateveris beautiful or noble into astupid jest they knew nothing.They kept their humor in its proper place; they used it for a wise purpose; they did not degrade it to catchan easy round of applause; and,fortunatelyfor them,they are today refusedthe august title of humorist,which sits soaptlyupon the shoulders of Mark Twain.
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected.The modern humorist is never unexpected.Hebeats the drum from the moment at which he appears upon the stage.Mark Twain brings whatever time has honored down to the level of a Yankee drummer.He finds every custom ridiculous that does not conform with thestandard of the United States.He holds his sides when hethinks of the old masters.Nor does he understand that there are certain manifestations of genius which should be sacred even for the jester.In other words,Mark Twain the humorist is a bull in the china shop of ideas.When,as in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,he gave full rein to his fancy,he achieved such a masterpiece of vulgarity as the world has never seen.His book gives you the same sort of impression which you might receive from a beautiful picture over which a poisonous slug had crawled.The hint of magnificence is there,pitilessly deformed and defaced.And it is the more pitiful because he has a talent which stands in need of no folly for its embellishment.Had he never cut a joke,had he refrained always from grinning at grave and beautiful things,how brilliant a fame would have been his!
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