04-10-2010, 11:59 AM
Quote:every statement about the quality if literature is simply subjective.That's only partly true. A hexameter is a hexameter, and some poets can write better hexameters than others. There are more errors in Homer's hexameters than in Virgil's. And a cliché is a cliché, and modern authors are better in evading them, because they have more literature to study, so they can recognize them more easily. So, I think that Joad has a point.