F. R. Leavis book The Great Tradition
The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1948) p. 2
“I believe that only poetry counts… A great novelist is first of all a great poet.”
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On peut citer de mauvais vers, quand ils sont d'un grand poète. <br class="br">Letter 4: Le Vicomte de Valmont to la Marquise de Merteuil. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_4 <br class="br">Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
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Complete Prose Works (1892), III. Notes Left Over 3. Ventures, on an Old Theme, p.324 http://books.google.com/books?id=UJA1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA324 <br class="br">Context: If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere — probably more than the rest of the world combined.<br>Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations — many rare combinations.<br>To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
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Sita Ram Goel, How I became a Hindu, Chapter 8
“I believe in one God, the first and great cause of all goodness.”
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Letter to a Quaker (1798)
Context: I believe in one God, the first and great cause of all goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ the redeemer of the world. I also believe in the Holy gost the comforter— here perhaps we may Differ a little as I believe Jesus Christ was from eternity and a part of the godhead — was Detached by the Father to Do a certain piece of service whioh was to take on Human Nature, which Human Nature was to suffer Death for the redemption of Mankind and when that service was compleatly fulfilled that he returned to and was consolidated with the Godhead. I further believe that all that are saved must be saved through the merits of Christ. I believe the Holy gost to be a part of the Divinity of the Father & son coequal with both is left here to comfort all that Hunger & thirst after righteousness a spark of which inhabit the breast of mankind as a monitor. These are apart of my ideas on the subject of religion.
“Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 672
“Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
This may have arisen as a paraphrase of statements found in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), "An Absurd Reasoning", or one found in The Novelist as Philosopher: Studies in French Fiction 1935-1960 (1962) edited by John Cruikshank, p. 218
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