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Posted by Denis McAuley on January 03, 19102 at 17:16:52:
I was interested in the article by 'Ahab' about a Conservative Revolution in literature. But just a question - what are the 'Great Books?' WH Auden, who was quoted, was a gay Marxist; Melville was gay; Shakespeare's son was born after six months of marriage.
Stylistically, Shakespeare broke the rule of the Three Unities in his plays. His sonnets infringed the usual rhyming scheme for the time. When he said '..and yet I think my love as fair/Than any she belied with false compare,' he was directly insulting the poetic cannons of the time. So Shakespeare wasn't a Conservative, if anything he was scandalous for that time.
But for that matter, George Washington was a deist, not a Christian. Adam Smith called the Free Market Laws 'that terrible maxim, all to me and nothing to other people.' And the list goes on.
I suppose the point I want to make is, before fixing a canon of Great Books which contain The Truth, how do you decide who to let into the club?
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