Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the p...
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Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.
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Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
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Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.
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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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Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
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The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
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A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
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Originality must compound with inheritance.
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Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
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All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.
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What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.
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Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket
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All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
