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Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden


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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.



Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.





The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.






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Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes





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