"Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and overcivilized?"
Louis Kronenberger was an American literary critic, novelist, and biographer known for his long tenure at Time magazine. He wrote extensively on drama and 18th-century cultural subjects.