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Literature iind EDdnrinff Peace
people tl,o „„ri,| ’ ”', “ “1"' ,■' "'O eonviclioii among tliinking vonn"
‘Climate of humanistic deter i'natio'iI'ir^T t* ^ sioh'il intellectua]
endure. Shelley once wroL “Rot 7 'irL"****^ ^ ‘n'der which will
have been th.^^ i "Ut it exceeds all iina;ination to conceive what wni.lgt
C'uu.cmrshrkes;,rre"rt.‘"”^ 1 Dante, Petrarch, BoccI"io
fl'e Hehrew lioetrv h’ "^ver existed; ... if
J'terature had never t-.V T translated; if a revival of the study of Greek
'^ufld had been extimmiTh i ^’^^try or the religion of the ancient
seriously for he wto ” t '5* with its belief.” The poet never spoke more
«'“o of’g",'"ii“” ™* “lone o ll.e l.erhago „t p„e,a,-, „r^|,„ i'X
'^nrthiest moments The i autobiography of human nature in its
«euse eompels a man tVwritT way: “The historical
!'ut with a feelin.r ih-it tl. i* i r t"erely with his own generation in his hones,
'f ‘f'e whole of the heiaume ^h "•’c of Europe from Homer and within
'^““•Puses a sinudtancous or,U” " -^"nnl'aneous existence and
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;;urld dLuuuinharLonle come ''‘l ^'7 ^'dien our shrinking
y Know ,l,a, „„ ,„„|„,,„,„li„g ,.gi.„ ll.a.,'Il.rojigl,
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Americas. One"cxrellent re-!sm/'i“' l^uowing the literature of the other
«‘dl better reason is to le-.. n 7 ”"*■ "‘'^‘-door neighbors. 4
•'uuusphere as hein-y the ^x '•'•«> concept of literature in this
foquently of late by wrimrs ‘ •"•‘athing free air has been voiced
••«rge Zalamea, and from Lo p" rT''*i Dorn Archibald MacLeish to
^*ierjcas today cxnressoq t ^ o San Francisco. Literature throiigliout the
sense of responsibility toward Anf ‘ “Tl*'’ i ‘"°"*‘''°"*»ess of America, hut also his
'uspires and fully saUsfies il ^ America. 1 he house of freedom is the only one that
f°lomhian histodan German South,” declared the
^^ashington should he read v^G writings of George
O'^n story, just 5*" , 7 Colomhiaiis not as foreign history hut as part of their
'"g.the letters of Bolivir and’T‘'t Americans will he interested in read-
a Viewpoint essenti il tr, • Santander as documents in their own country. This is
vaniiot afford to remain ”un m 'I 'udispensahle.” We
will he so mud! our own! literature.
d'he
Western tradition is iscover hh ‘*y«^•a•'•‘^ for creating an undersjanding of our
« panorama of worhl litem ^ «tudy of this tradition as it unfolds in
literatures especiallv of PI «f ‘''e imagination of the Orient,
"ouhlers of an ancient ^culture \T T'* '*’**“"* ueigldmrs. They are the
today. "l‘ure that is asserting its place in the conflict of ideal
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