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<DIV>From Edith Wharton’s “The Pelican” (1898):</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">‘Matthew Arnold had introduced the habit of
studying the "influence" of one author on another. She had tried lecturing on
influences, and had done very well as long as the public was satisfied with the
tracing of such obvious influences as that of Turner on Ruskin, of Schiller on
Goethe, of Shakespeare on the English drama; but such investigations had soon
lost all charm for her too-sophisticated audiences, who now demanded either that
the influence or the influenced should be absolutely unknown, or that there
should be no perceptible connection between the two. The zest of the performance
lay in the measure of ingenuity with which the lecturer established a relation
between two people who had probably never heard of each other, much less read
each other's works. A pretty Miss Williams with red hair had, for instance, been
lecturing with great success on the influence of the Rosicrucians upon the
poetry of Keats, while somebody else had given a "course" on the influence of
St. Thomas Aquinas upon Professor Huxley.”</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Stuart</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>