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... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell ...
... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell ...
Page 101
... literature with complete intimacy . For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offers great difficulty , but of ancestral ...
... literature with complete intimacy . For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offers great difficulty , but of ancestral ...
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... literature in other countries , he will see clearly the trend that literature in its evolution is pursuing and so be enabled profitably to direct that of his own countrymen . He must support himself on tradition , for tradition is the ...
... literature in other countries , he will see clearly the trend that literature in its evolution is pursuing and so be enabled profitably to direct that of his own countrymen . He must support himself on tradition , for tradition is the ...
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