D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
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“Two bodies of modern literature seem to me to have come to a real verge: the Russian and the American... The European moderns are all trying to be extreme. The great Americans I mention just were it. Which is why the world has funked them, and funks them to-day.
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— Studies in Classic American Literature, 1923
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