Download File

IBSEN i
WAS it chance made Mr. Ellis Roberts mention
June 1912 C zanne on the fourth page of a book about
Ibsen ? One cannot think so. Similarities
in the work and circumstances of the two men
can hardly have escaped him. Born within a
dozen years of each other (Ibsen was born in
1828), both matured in a period when the
professions of writing and painting were
laboriously cultivated at the expense of art.
Each, unguided except by his own sense of
dissatisfaction with his surroundings, found a
way through the sloughs of romance and the
deserts of realism, to the high country beyond
them. Both sought and both found the same
thing the thing above literature and painting,
the stuff out of which great literature and
painting are made.
The Romantics and Realists were like
to cuffs about which is the more
people coming
important thing in an orange, the history of
Spain or the number of pips. The instinct of
1 "
Henrik Ibsen: a Critical Study." By R. Ellis Roberts.
(Seeker.)
28