There are signs that a literary era is commencing, in which the drama will again regain to the full its position as a literature.

More and more the bigger creative artists will turn to a form which by its economy of means to ends, and the chance it gives not merely of observing but of creating and displaying character in action, has a more vigorous principle of life in it than its rival.
BIBLIOGRAPHY It is best to study English literature one period, or, even in the case of the greatest, one author at a time.

In every case the student should see to it that he knows the _text_ of his authors; a knowledge of what critics have said about our poets is a poor substitute for a knowledge of what they have said themselves.

Poetry ought to be read slowly and carefully, and the reader ought to pay his author the compliment of crediting him with ideas as important and, on occasion, as abstruse as any in a work of philosophy or abstract science.

When the meaning is mastered, the poem ought to be read a second time aloud to catch the magic of the language and the verse.