Century Readings for a Course in American Literature
Century Readings for a Course in American Literature
Fred Lewis Pattee
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less. Of the other, I will not insult the By points like these we, in reflection, reader's intelligence (once really entering token what we mean by any land's or into the atmosphere of these Vistas) by people's genuine literature. And thus 10 supposing it necessary to show, in detail, compared and tested, judging amid the in- why the copious dribble, either of our little fluence of loftiest products only, what do or well-known rimesters, does not fulfil, our current copious fields of print, cov...er- in any respect, the needs and august occa- ing in manifold forms, the United States, sions of this hand. America demands a better, for an analogy, present, than, as in 15 poetry that is bold, modern, and all-sur- certain regions of the sea, those spread- rounding and kosmical, as she is herself, ing, undulating masses of squid, through It must in no respect ignore science or the which the whale swimming, with head modern, but inspire itself with science and half out, feeds? the modern. It must bend its vision to- Not but that doubtless our current so- 20 ward the future, more than the past.
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