Bestsellers and Classics Differentiated: The word “classics” is derived from the Latin adjective classicus: “belonging to the highest class of citizens”, implying superiority, authority, and perfection. Besides, it refers to those who or which follow ‘classicism’ that is the principles, traditional aesthetic values, attitude or style of the art of ancient civilizations. The term may refer to a later work inspired by those of antiquity. More broadly, ‘classicism’ implies the adherence to virtues regarded as characteristics of classicism or as universally valid including formal elegance and correctness, simplicity, dignity, restraint, order etc. It is often opposed to romanticism. On the other hand, the best seller is one, irrespective of sanctities, capable of making big fortune through the sheer volume of sale of it. We, of course, are speaking of art that is the activity of human – the intellectual being on the earth. Art is an outcome of the aesthetically skillful exercise of human thinking. Literary works belong to
Bestsellers and Classics Differentiated: The word “classics” is derived from the Latin adjective classicus: “belonging to the highest class of citizens”, implying superiority, authority, and perfection. Besides, it refers to those who or which follow ‘classicism’ that is the principles, traditional aesthetic values, attitude or style of the art of ancient civilizations. The term may refer to a later work inspired by those of antiquity. More broadly, ‘classicism’ implies the adherence to virtues regarded as characteristics of classicism or as universally valid including formal elegance and correctness, simplicity, dignity, restraint, order etc. It is often opposed to romanticism. On the other hand, the best seller is one, irrespective of sanctities, capable of making big fortune through the sheer volume of sale of it. We, of course, are speaking of art that is the activity of human – the intellectual being on the earth. Art is an outcome of the aesthetically skillful exercise of human thinking. Literary works belong to