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SOURCE: "The Authority of Male Tradition," in Louise Bogan's Aesthetic of Limitation, Indiana University Press, 1987, pp. 19-33.
In the following excerpt, Bowles examines the influence of the Symbolists, the Metaphysicals, W. B. Yeats, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Bogan's artistic development.
[T]he historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
—T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
May a poet write as a poet or must he write as a period?
—Laura Riding and Robert Graves, A Survey of Modernist Poetry
I have been thinking about Censors. How visionary figures admonish us …
—Virginia Woolf, Diary
[T]hose women artists esteemed by men...
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