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Works of Mark Twain: Critical Battle Over Mark Twain's Psyche

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Twain, Mark

Twain, Mark
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Battle Over Mark Twain's Psyche

In the very early days, when Twain was still very much alive and writing,
critics scorned his books, and libraries banned them for their vulgarity and
"lack of consequence." Other of his contemporary critics praised him as the
soul of American humor. In popular esteem, however, Mark Twain rode high, wide
and handsome. He earned a fortune satisfying the tastes of the "great American
populace" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while some segments
of the intellectual leadership of the country looked on ...

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