Excerpt from The Grotesque in the Poetry of Robert Browning: Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Arts of the University of Texas for the Degree of Master of Arts, June, 1906Art itself, Wright says, is in its earliest form merely caricature. For only by such accentuation of. Peculiar characteristics is an unskilled draughtsman able to make his work comprehensible. Furthermore, the tendency to burlesque and caricature is early developed in a people because they demand such entertainment. Among the primitive tribes the Chieftain with his warriors found amusement in mocking their enemies, and among the Teutons the customs of the mead-hall, as described in Old English poetry, demanded such forms of amusement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.