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Updated: June 6, 2025

Before you condemn that curious style of his-so easy to parody, so hard to imitate ask whether such refinement of thought as his could be much more simply expressed. Sometimes he could have been simpler, undoubtedly; it was his fault that he did not care to be; but that "plain American" would usually have served his purpose, is certainly false.

Henry Seidel Canby - Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism