Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the p…

It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which th…

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely w…