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Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Ellen Glasgow
Art, Perfection, Enough

... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

Ellen Glasgow
Art, Thinking, Psychology

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Ellen Glasgow
Art, Purpose, Fiction
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.

Ellen Glasgow
Art, Writing, Interesting

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