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            <title>Chapter 4</title>
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            <dc:creator>Erskine, John</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[If the principles of tragedy, comedy and satire are as implicit in our psychology now as when Aristotle described them, and if the principles of decorum, of art, and of the timeless and the impersonal in art, are as rooted in life as they are declared to be, there might seem to be no great need to preach them; the practice of literature would…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 3</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To ask what characters are proper to literature as an art, and to point out that the character better than life will express our ideals, and that the character worse than life will invite our satire, is only to raise in another way the old problems of the universal as against the particular in art, of the contemporary as against the eternal. To be…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 2</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The effect of the excellence or the inferiority of the character on the book was long ago observed by Aristotle, when he said that tragedy and the epic—that is, all serious literature—will aim at representing men as better than in actual life, and that comedy and satire will represent them as worse. In this second kind of writing, he added, satire came first, and…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 1</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Erskine, John</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[Our impulse might be to say that any character at all is proper to literature, or to any phase of literature, for we have long ago discarded that convention of ancient story which introduced the hero and heroine always as nobly born, or if at first they were not gentlefolk, yet in the last chapter they were shown to be prince and princess in…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 4</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Erskine, John</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[Well, then, says the teacher of current literature, there never can be any great books, for you approve of nothing contemporary, and every book, unfortunately, has to be written in its own time. Yes, in a sense, anything you write, on however remote a subject, will be of your time and will represent it; Walter Pater was expressing one phase of Victorian England when…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 3</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Erskine, John</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[If a writer fails to use the past as the language with which to express his present, the reason may be that he does not know the past, or that he has theoretical objections to using it so, even though the great writers have followed no other method. But this reason is rarely the true one. Today as at other times any sincere writer…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 2</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Erskine, John</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[A genuine love of your own time is the recognition, in what you meet in it, of those best moments which crave to be made accessible even for the remotest of ages following. To immortalize any given moment, however, is to take it out of the temporary and somehow to find a language for it so general in its appeal that hereafter it may…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 1</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[“The end of playing”, said Hamlet, “both at the first and now, was and is, to show the very age and body of the time, his form and presence.” It would seem that Hamlet thought the business of art was to portray the age in which the artist lived, not only to address his contemporaries, but to speak to them about themselves. The cult…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 5</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nowhere in literature, perhaps, is art so obviously essential and naturalism so obviously fatal as in drama, for drama, by exhibiting life to us directly, quickens to its utmost whatever desire we have to see our fellows move on from their natural beginnings to some achievement or significant conclusion. Impulses, ideas, motives, prejudices, passions, and as we now say, complexes, are all natural forms…]]></description>
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            <title>Chapter 4</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If such a taking to cover is observed in much writing today, the writers who in one form or another now cultivate nature rather than art may plead with justice that the best literature our country produced before them was perilously deficient in a sense of reality. If they do so plead, however, they ought to be consistent. If they think that so great…]]></description>
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