...In the decade from 1870 to 1880 a new spirit was stirring in the
intellectual and literary world of Denmark. George Brandes was
delivering his lectures on the Main Currents of Nineteenth Century
Literature; from Norway came the deeply probing questionings of the
granitic Ibsen; from across the North Sea from England echoes of
the evolutionary theory and Darwinism. It was a time of controversy
and bitterness, of a conflict joined between the old and the new,
both going to extremes, in which nearly every one had a share. How
many of the works of that period are already out-worn, and how
old-fashioned the theories that were then so violently defended and
attacked! Too much logic, too much contention for its own sake, one
might say, and too little art...
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