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regarded attentively by the world and, most important,
listened to. The existence of such a community seems to
be a precondition for the emergence of a national
literature sufficiently large in extent and weighty in
substance to fix the world’s eye and give shape to the
world’s imagination; . . . it was the writers themselves
who helped call into being this thing called “national
literature”. At first, their activity had a pleasing
artlessness about it, . . . Later under the spell of the
Romantic movement, moribund languages were revived,
new national epics were composed for nations that as yet
barely existed, while literature enthusiastically ascribed to
the idea of national existence the most supernatural
virtues. . . .
Closely interrelated, then, by the operation and effects of