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Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

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I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. He...more

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When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation fr...more

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Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

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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...more

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The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.