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Quotation by Ruth Benedict
... no book ... ever competed with the Bible. The story of Ruth was better than Ramona, and the poetry of Job was better than Longfellow. I still have my first big Bible, carefully underlined through with red and black ink, and interleafed [sic] with painfully written manuscript pages.... Margery and I earned our five cents a week for church and a penny for Sunday school by learning three verses of the Bible a day and six on Sunday. We learned dozens and dozens of chapters. I supposed "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha" were better poetry, but I didn't like them so well.
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), U.S. anthropologist. An Anthropologist at Work, part 2 (1959).
From "The Story of My Life," written in 1935. She was remembering the favorite childhood reading of herself and her sister, Margery. Ramona (1884) was a popular historical romance by Helen Hunt Jackson; "Evangeline" (1847) and "Hiawatha" (1855) were beloved narrative poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Benedict's childhood taste was discerning; there is critical consensus that the language of the King James translation of the Bible, which she was probably reading, is far superior to Longfellow's....
From "The Story of My Life," written in 1935. She was remembering the favorite childhood reading of herself and her sister, Margery. Ramona (1884) was a popular historical romance by Helen Hunt Jackson; "Evangeline" (1847) and "Hiawatha" (1855) were beloved narrative poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Benedict's childhood taste was discerning; there is critical consensus that the language of the King James translation of the Bible, which she was probably reading, is far superior to Longfellow's....
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