There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in whic...
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Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
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Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
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A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
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One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes s...
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Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden
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Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
