Cultural Poetics of Literature and Media

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is—to teach; the function of the second is—to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.