“Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) British literary critic
Vol. 1, p. 203
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day
“Literature is analysis after the event.”
Quoted in Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, ed. Michael Horovitz (1969): Afterwords, section 2
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