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The Province of English Philology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Albert S. Cook
Albert S. Cook*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Extract

Perhaps no reproach is oftener addressed to those who call themselves philologists than that they are unconcerned with that beauty which has furnished a distinctive epithet for the word “literature” in the phrase belles lettres, that they lack imagination and insight, and that they are quite unfitted to impart to others a sense of the spiritual values which inhere in the productions that form the subject matter of their studies. An eloquent writer, who is himself a capable investigator, has recently presented this view in an essay which deserves the attention of every teacher of literature, and especially of every teacher of English literature.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , September 1949 , pp. 615 - 628
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1949

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Footnotes

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The Executive Council has authorized the publication in PMLA of occasional editorials on matters of general interest to the Association, and all living past-presidents have been invited to contribute. In view of current discussions of the Theory of Literature (and perennial discussions of the aims of our scholarship) it has seemed appropriate to introduce this series of guest editorials by reprinting (from PMLA, xiii, 185–204) a presidential address delivered in 1897.