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This is priceless! The two examples are brilliant and very funny.
It makes me want to read Edith Wharton again.<br>
Jean Mallinson<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/15/2012 4:53 AM, Stuart N. Clarke
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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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