Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. -A. E. Housman

 

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.


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And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

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And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. -A. E. Housman
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.

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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. -A. E. Housman
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About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.

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