As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it e
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Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other know
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He is a Presbyterian first and an artist second, which is just as comfortable as trying to be a Presbyterian first and a chorus gi
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American thinking, when it concerns itself with beautiful letters as when it concerns itself with religious dogma or political the
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If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimism ... it was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and most
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What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing
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The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it a grand and somewhat ga
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One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of n
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The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is eve
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Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocr
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