Samuel Clemens Works
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Samuel Clemens Works
"Heaven and Hell and sunset and rainbows and the aurora all fused into on
divine harmony . . . " It is by the goodness of God that in out country we
have those three unspeakable precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of
conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Samuel Clemens'
profound response to beauty was immediately and untrammeled-the beauty of
nature, for which no special training is necessary for appreciation. The quote
above supports the idea that Samuel Clemens was a literary artist, possibly
America's greatest. Yet, he was definitely not just a writer. He wrote many
novels that became American classics. Many of Clemens' greatest works were based
on his own personal experiences as a young man on the Mississippi River, and
through theses writing he established a place for himself in the classics of
American literature. To this day, Samuel Langhorne Clemens is, without a doubt,
America's most picturesque literary figure. Perhaps a part of his appeal to the
mass imagination lies in the fact that he himself became the embodiment of
literature throughout his and the rest of time. The mastery of his literary
oeuvres has surpassed the conventional cascade of literature since the 1800's.
Samuel Clemens will be, forevermore, the epitome of the literary world.
Throughout his life, Samuel Clemens maintained an engaging and infectiously
boyish enthusiasm that led his wife to nickname him "Youth." Unlike
most men, Samuel Clemens never did renounce his boyhood; he carried with him
into maturity miraculously preserved and vibrant memories of his early and
middle adolescence, and it was through these memories that he filtered his adult
experience. At the age of fifty-five, he wrote to an unknown correspondent:
"And yet I can't go away from the boyhood period and write novels because
capital is not sufficient by itself and I lack the other essential: interest in
handling the men and experiences of later times," (Bellamy, Mark Twain as a
Literary Artist, 16). On this circumstance, he founded an enviable fame and
fortune and an enduring artistic achievement. (Bellamy, 17) Although the
splendid moment of his fame is still prolonged and extends immeasurably far into
the future, that fame was only a small part of his power. There was something
about him that moves people who knew nothing of his renown, who did not even
know who he was. Samuel Clemens' personality was of a sort that compelled those
about him so strongly th...
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