MISINFORMING A NATION
BOOKS BY MR. WRIGHT
- MISINFORMING A NATION
- MODERN PAINTING: Its Tendency and Meaning
- WHAT NIETZSCHE TAUGHT
- THE MAN OF PROMISE
- THE CREATIVE WILL
IN PREPARATION
- MODERN LITERATURE
- PRINCIPLES OF ÆSTHETIC FORM AND ORGANIZATION
Misinforming a Nation
by Willard Huntington Wright
New York B. W. Huebsch MCMXVII
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
B. W. HUEBSCH
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | Colonizing America | 1 |
| II | The Novel | 24 |
| III | The Drama | 52 |
| IV | Poetry | 68 |
| V | British Painting | 85 |
| VI | Non-British Painting | 102 |
| VII | Music | 122 |
| VIII | Science | 148 |
| IX | Inventions, Photography, Æsthetics | 160 |
| X | Philosophy | 174 |
| XI | Religion | 195 |
| XII | Two Hundred Omissions | 218 |
MISINFORMING A NATION
I
COLONIZING AMERICA
The intellectual colonization of America by Englandhas been going on for generations. Takingadvantage of her position of authority—a positionbuilt on centuries of æsthetic tradition—Englandhas let pass few opportunities to ridiculeand disparage our activities in all lines of creativeeffort, and to impress upon us her own assumedcultural superiority. Americans, lacking thatsense of security which long-established institutionswould give them, have been influenced bythe insular judgments of England, and, in an effortto pose as au courant of