Provo Daily Enquirer | 1897-07-28 | Page 1 | Literary Evolution of America

literary evolution of america wo we are passing through the sanie same stage of literary evolution as the french only that with them the habit babit of literary criticism and self criticism ma makee the tendency moro marked and moro more easily studied here as there it might seem that for the time the minds of men had overleaped over leaped themselves as though in this strange fin an du da siccle we were pausing in our letters and art uncertain of the onward way and seeking seeding in more acute apprehension deeper penetration and keener analysis of what has been and is an answer to oar car pes pe of what shall be here as there originality never absent manifests is il self too often in a studied eccentric eccentricity II 11 i and wastes its energy in a search for tb the novel and bizarre a search that is most moat futile when most successful but as one reviews the field of american letters one may take heart of brace to say eay that our development in no way lags laga behind that of england that it has in it the promise of an evolution as brilliant as varied and perhaps more critically sound above all it is independent and so is contributing an important por tant perhaps au an e essential part to tho the growth of a distinctly national literature era ture professor B W wells in forum