F. S. Flint vs. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
F. S. Flint
1885 – 1960
Frank Stuart Flint was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. Ford Madox Ford called him "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the country".
"The point is that any piece of Impressionism, whether it be prose, verse or painting, or sculpture, is the record of the impression."
Samuel Butler (novelist)
1835 – 1902
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
"All we know is, that even the humblest dead may live along after all trace of the body has disappeared; we see them doing it in the bodies and memories of these…"
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