…to have an analytic enough mind to enjoy even second rate eighteenth-century poetry, is a better test of ‘love of poetry’ than to like Shakespeare, which is no test at all…
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…to have an analytic enough mind to enjoy even second rate eighteenth-century poetry, is a better test of ‘love of poetry’ than to like Shakespeare, which is no test at all…
“Great literary pieces are great because, among other things, they are in permanent polemics with their readers, some of whom are writers, and who are able to themselves express creatively their sense of this literary affair. Great literary pieces have that specific magical quality of provoking readers to rewrite them, to make a new literary project out of them.”
Dubravka Ugrešić