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airy manner, loose irresponsible way; reasoning in a superficial way.
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beauty is truth, truth beauty, from Keats’s “Ode to the Grecian Urn” （1820） 11, 49-50.
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Hazlitt, William （1778-1830）, English critic and miscellaneous writer.
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Sainte Beuve, Charles Augustin （1804-1869）, French literary critic.
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy —These are the opening lines of “The Song of the Happy Shepherd” by William Butler Yeats （1865-1939）, Irish poet and author.
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The woods of Arcady . Arcady is another spelling for Arcadia, a Utopia of poetical simplicity and innocence, named after a pastoral and mountainous district of the Peloponnesus, in Greece, a district fabled to be the idyllic. By the four words “The woods of Arcady” is meant poetry and poetic inspiration, because within the forests of Arcadia is to be had such inspiration.
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their antique joy, the happiness which they （the woods of Arcady） experienced in olden times. Yeats is lamenting the dearth, the lack, of good poetry to-day; he even claims that people do not derive any happiness from poetry any more.
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catholicity, liberality and universality of sentiment.
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one narrow channel, a passage that is not wide; hence, a mind or disposition that is not broad, that confines itself to very narrow interests.
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vitalize, endow with life or vitality; give life to.
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Crashaw, Richard （1613? -1649）, English poet.
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predilections, previous likings.
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put the cart before the horse, do things in the reverse order; take effect for cause.
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hot interest, ardent, strong interest.
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judiciously, sensibly, prudently.
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Putney, a parish of Wandsworth borough, in the environs of London, England.
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Walham Green, in Fulham, north of Putney and across the river Thames, on the direct route from the heart of London to Putney.
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St. Petersburg, the name of the capital of Russia in the Czarist days, now changed to Leningrad. To take the direct route from London via Walham Green to Putney would be to take the judicious way, the sensible thing to do; to go to Putney from the heart of London by way of St. Petersburg would be to take a most roundabout way, a most injudicious way, not the sensible thing to do. Experience may be acquired judiciously or injudiciously.
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Questions
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1. How much do most people care about literature?
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2. By whom is the fame of classical authors made and maintained?
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3. How do the “passionate few” keep the renown of genius alive from generation to generation?
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4. Why is this minority so occupied with literature?
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5. What is a classic?
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6. What is the one primary essential to literary taste?
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