“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
William Dean Howells
03.01.1837 - 05.11.1920William Dean Howells was the author of many novels, including A Hazard of New Fortunes, and the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He was known as "The Dean of American Letters."
"All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise."
— William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
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