What is Literature?
Literature is mirror of Society, which express our thoughts, feelings and attitude toward life.
It is a curious and prevalent opinion that literature, like all art, is a mere play of imagination, pleasing enough, like a new novel, but without any serious or practical importance. Literature preserves the ideals of a people; and ideals – love, faith, duty, friendship, freedom, reverence -are the part of human life most worthy of preservation.
Literature is the expression of life in words of truth and beauty ; it is the written record of man’s spirit, of his thoughts, emotions, aspirations; it is the history, and the only history, of the human soul. It is characterized by its artistic, its suggestive, its permanent qualities.
The Life he literature of a people springs directly out of its life, then the stern, barbarous life of good fathers would seem, at first glance, to promise little of good literature.
