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Page 87
... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contem- poraries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to ...
... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contem- poraries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to ...
Page 161
... literature of a country is made not by a few excellent books , I repeat , but by a great body of work , and this can only be pro- duced by professional writers . The literature of those countries that has been produced chiefly by ...
... literature of a country is made not by a few excellent books , I repeat , but by a great body of work , and this can only be pro- duced by professional writers . The literature of those countries that has been produced chiefly by ...
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... literature ' ; I am afraid that this is only his civil way of calling them nonsense . The physicists themselves tell us that physics is making such rapid progress that it is only possible to keep abreast of it by a close study of the ...
... literature ' ; I am afraid that this is only his civil way of calling them nonsense . The physicists themselves tell us that physics is making such rapid progress that it is only possible to keep abreast of it by a close study of the ...
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