"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."

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LiteratureCulture of the United StatesAmerican literature
Original Language: English

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Sinclair Lewis, "The American Fear of Literature", Nobel Prize Address (December 12, 1930), in H. Frenz, Literature 1901–67 (1969), p. 285