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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Signed by author. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The burden of Newman’s argument is that English literature-and he means modern or postmedieval literature as he doesn’t refer even to Chaucer-is essentially Protestant literature and there is nothing that Catholics can hope to do to change the situation: a Catholic literature is simply an impossibility in the context of English culture. Discussing the nature of a literary classic-in the course of which he strikingly anticipates T. S. Eliot’s “What Is a Classic?” (1944)’-he maintains as though it were an obvious fact: “In no case can we strictly speaking form an English Literature; for by the Literature of a Nation is meant its Classics and its Classics have been given to England and have been recognized as such long since.” Newman doubts anyway whether there will be any more “clas- sical authors” as such as English literature has probably passed its hour of glory: “[T]his is not a day for great writers but for good writing.” This is especially true he adds of periodical literature: “There never was a time when men wrote so much and so well and that without being of any great account themselves. (LL)