But her literary importance to-day rests not so much on the amount or variety of her work, as on the fact that in an age of didacticism and satire she delicately foreshadowed tastes that ruled in the romanticism of a century later.
Even a reader whose mind has been subdued to second-class eighteenth-century didacticism finds Miss Talbot's moralizings pale and anæmic.
And there is more of scorn, indignation, and didacticism than of sweetness and light.
But it should be remembered that literature never thus becomes a weapon for reform or a piece of didacticism or propaganda.
In Anglo-Saxon and early English poetic literature, and especially in the religious part of it, an element of didacticismis not to be overlooked.
The diffuseness of the English novel, in short, and its extravagantdidacticism cannot fail to be most prejudicial to its perpetuation.
Now downright didacticism in a poet is an abomination.
This didacticism seems not to have harmed his artistic welfare, for he has undoubtedly been the most popular poet that ever wrote.
Mary" is less explicit in its teaching than the two great novels just summarized, but what it misses in didacticism it more than gains in art.
Her imagination was too intense, her conceptions too vivid, to find any attraction in the realistic didacticism of the Catsian circle.
On the boards, the didacticism is even more emphatic.
New elements of music and clowning change his lugubrious didacticism to a lyrical warning in a form I call "morality ballad opera.
The playwright colors the didacticism of Hogarth's prints with music and farce, yet underscores it by adding Virtue and Vice and the melodrama of Rakewell's suicide and Sarah's probable death.
If it be saddled with didacticism or tailed with a moral, it ceases to be a story and becomes an argument; when it no longer concerns us.
The only legitimate purpose of the short story is to amuse, and didacticism in literature is always inartistic.
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