CULTURE TODAY
BOOKS, PAST .AND PRESENT. To read contemporary literature is not only a pleasure, but a duty, writes Mr George Sampson in “The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature.” In our proper anxiety to be familiar with “the best that is known and thought in the world,” we must certainly endeavour to be familiar with the best that is known and thought in our own time. The culture that confines itself to the literature of the past is an imperfect culture. In a true sense, there is no past; all good literature is present to us, and is good literature only if it is present to us. But no person of real culture ever does confine himself to the literature either of the past or of the present. A limitation of interest —and especially a professed or proclaimed limitation —is a mark of unsoundness. A full understanding includes and does not exclude.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411024.2.59
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
153CULTURE TODAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in