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Tradition and Experiment
Hazlitt, Henry | February 19, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Tradition and Experiment in Present-Day Literature." From a volume such as this, the reader expects to emerge with his ideas sharpened and clarified; he is likely, instead, to find himself more in a fog than ever. Here are essays by ten writers, writing by pairs on five branches of literary art, the first of the pair discussing his branch in relation to tradition, the second in relation to experiment. One looks for clean divisions of opinion, for a series of five debates. One finds, in fact, that not a single contributor has been willing to throw in his lot entirely either with tradition or with experiment.

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