Classic American Love

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    “The detective novel is the art-for-art’s-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.”
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

    “The novel is, or may be, among the mightiest instruments for swaying the heart and guiding the lives of men.”
    —P., U.S. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 357-9 (August 1828)

    “How sweet I roam’d from field to field
    And tasted all the summer’s pride,
    Till I the Prince of Love beheld
    Who in the sunny beams did glide!”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)