THE MARCH OF LITERATURE Ford Madox FordDial ($3.75).
ENJOYMENT OF LITERATUREJohn Cowper PowysSimon & Schuster ($3.75).
Distaste for the literary classics is an inhibition commonly traced to English teachers. Cures are rare. On the contrary, the psychosis is likely to be aggravated by stuffed-shirt critics, lecturers, anthologists, Five Foot Shelves. An accidental cure sometimes occurs when a reader stumbles on to a first-rate modern critic, who illuminates the classics with insight and imagination while advising the reader to follow his own reason, draw his own conclusions. An honest reader, if he believes...
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