It Needs to be Said

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Frederick Philip Grove. It Needs to be Said

It Needs to be Said

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A NEGLECTED FUNCTION OF A CERTAIN LITERARY ASSOCIATION [1]

LITERARY CRITICISM

REALISM IN LITERATURE

THE HAPPY ENDING

THE AIM OF ART

THE VALUE OF ART

THE NOVEL

NATIONHOOD

[An address delivered to twenty-odd Canadian clubs.]

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Frederick Philip Grove

Published by Good Press, 2021

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For the eternal function of art and more especially of literature is to define the emotional attitude of man to that which is not he. Literature makes the individual as well as the nation articulate. What, to the members of other nations, does Canada stand for? So far, very little. Does that mean that our unrivalled sea-shores, our proud mountains, and our boundless prairies, unique on earth, have not tinged man's attitude to life and the world, or to God, whatever you care to call it? Does it mean that our broad slice of the universe as it was settled has not engendered a new human reaction to the outside world? I do not believe it.

In fact, I believe that such a new reaction is to-day crying for utterance in verse and prose; for only by being uttered can it be born. Let us, then, aim at supplying a future generation with its expression.

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