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Let me try to give it in simple terms which do not entirely beg the question . A classic , then , is a book which expresses the living soul of an exceptional man , and which , whatever its age , can still give its readers the joy of ...
Let me try to give it in simple terms which do not entirely beg the question . A classic , then , is a book which expresses the living soul of an exceptional man , and which , whatever its age , can still give its readers the joy of ...
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He may , being sterile , become what is called a critic of other men's books : if he does that , he never forgives himself for lacking creative power , and gives the other men's books some shrewd knocks . He can see all their faults .
He may , being sterile , become what is called a critic of other men's books : if he does that , he never forgives himself for lacking creative power , and gives the other men's books some shrewd knocks . He can see all their faults .
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To give you one instance which occurs to me : in speaking of Defoe in his survey of the eighteenth century , The Peace of the Augustans , he refers illuminatingly , and with no hesitation , to The Pied Piper of Hamelin , the Odyssey ...
To give you one instance which occurs to me : in speaking of Defoe in his survey of the eighteenth century , The Peace of the Augustans , he refers illuminatingly , and with no hesitation , to The Pied Piper of Hamelin , the Odyssey ...
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Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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