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Toward a New Canon
van Doren, Carl | April 13, 1932 issue

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The canon of American literature refuses to stay fixed. Thirty, even twenty, years ago it seemed to many observers that the end of a literary epoch had been reached and that the elder classics were secure on solid thrones. When the new canon has been arrived at, and before it has in turn been superseded, Ludwig Lewisohn will be seen to have done as much for the revision as any single man. His "Expression in America" is a critical milestone. He has done what was most needed to be done. Detaching himself from the more myopic controversies which go on in the U.S., he has from the distance of his exile looked back with a commanding eye.

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AMERICAN literature; CANON (Literature); LEWISOHN, Ludwig; EXPRESSION in America (Book); CRITICISM; UNITED States
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