Mid-West Quarterly, The (1913-1918)
Date of this Version
1915
Abstract
It is necessary in the interpretation of any writer, and especially if he be of the present day, that the literary motives which actuate him should be thoroughly understood. Through their realization and through what we might term his interpretation of his own ideals, we are enabled to form a sufficient idea of his literary originality and a better comprehension of his relation to his own and preceding times. It is of course truistic that all writers can not create new fields, that they can only follow, modifying, adapting, enlarging, or lessening, as the case may be, the accumulated heritage of the past.
Comments
Published in THE MID-WEST QUARTERLY 2:4 (July 1915), pp. 367-389. Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons & the University of Nebraska.