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" ... the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence... "
Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings - Page 515
by Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff - 2004 - 592 pages
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Poetry, Volume 17

Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1921 - 376 pages
...but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer, and within it the whole of the literature of his own country, has...
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Poetry, Volume 17

Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1921 - 394 pages
...but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer, and within it the whole of the literature of his own country, has...
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Criticism in America, Its Functions and Status

Irving Babbitt, Van Wyck Brooks, William Crary Brownell, Ernest Augustus Boyd, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Henry Louis Mencken, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Joel Elias Spingarn, George Edward Woodberry - American literature - 1924 - 342 pages
...but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a...
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Criticism in America: Its Function and Status; Essays

Irving Babbitt - American literature - 1924 - 342 pages
...but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a...
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The Hound & Horn, Volume 1

American literature - 1927 - 472 pages
...It involves the historical sense, which "compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe . . . has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order. This historical...
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English Prose Style

Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 262 pages
...but of its presence ; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a...
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Toward Standards: A Study of the Present Critical Movement in American Letters

Norman Foerster - Literary Criticism - 1966 - 244 pages
...but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a...
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The Making of Literature

Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - Criticism - 1928 - 406 pages
...but of its presence ; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a...
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The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism

Thomas Stearns Eliot - Criticism - 1928 - 206 pages
...but of its presence ; /the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a...
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American Criticism: A Study in Literary Theory from Poe to the Present

Norman Foerster - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 306 pages
...but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a...
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