Together in the Same Direction?

Posted by J. Mark Bertrand
on Thursday, August 02, 2007
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... the reader of contemporary literature is not, like the reader of the established great literature of all time, exposing himself to the influence of divers and contradictory personalities; he is exposing himself to a mass movement of writers who, each of them, think that they have something individually to offer, but are really all working together in the same direction.

T. S. ELIOT
"Religion and Literature," in Essays Ancient and Modern, p. 107