Article August 20, 1921 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Felix Grendon, John R. Commons, W. J. Turner, Basil A. Yeaxlee

[From "A New Spirit in Literature," by Felix Grendon, in The Forum]

In contrast to Biblical times, the modern western world has rarely furnished literary artists who were also prophets, or prophets who were also literary artists. Barring a few exceptions like Langland, Milton, Bunyan, and Blake, our Doctors of Literature have functioned chiefly as professional amusers. Their specialty has been the manufacture of voluptuous sense impression and the annihilation of serious thought on the basis that, with

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