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Imaginative Literature I
Imaginative Literature I examines several masterpieces of ancient literature and of the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance which aim at a total view of human life.
In modern times such unity is lacking. Sigmund Freud speaks somewhere of three revolutions which have overturned and dispersed the old visions. The Copernican revolution, he says, came first, removing man from the center of creation, and then came the Darwinian and lastly the Freudian discoveries which completed the dispersal.
Nevertheless, writers have continued, with varying degrees of success, the attempt to make an all-embracing synthesis. In the eighteenth century, the man of letters still considered himself a natural center of clearinghouse for every form of knowledge.
These classics, however, belong to anyone who has the ability to take them, to everyone who understands and is moved by them.
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