“ Why live? Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable. There’s no end to the response you can make to that question.
Centenarian M.H. Abrams, founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, on why we should study the stuff.
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