anti-vulgarian

Updated: May 14, 2025

Ouida was not one of these professional hacks, but a personality of refined instincts who wrote, when she cared to write at all, to please her equals; a rationalistic anti-vulgarian; a woman of wide horizons who fought for generous issues and despised all shams; the last, almost the last, of lady-authors. What has such a genial creature in common with our anaemic and woolly generation?

Norman Douglas - Alone

Nature must be kept "in her place." Her extrava-gances are not to be admired. This anthropocentric spirit has made him what he is the ideal anti-sentimentalist and anti-vulgarian. For excess of sentiment, like all other intemperance, is the mark of that unsober and unsteady beast the crowd.

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria