Word: grandaunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considering Dante as an artist and creator, Professor Grandaunt showed that the poet possessed the three factors which combine to make art--conception, selection, and expression--in the highest degree and in nice balance, Dante also offers in this "age of shallow self-expressiveness" a salutary example in "giving to us, by his skill and care in selection, as much by what he withholds as by what he tells...
...modern age," said Professor Grandaunt, "with all its inventions and material benefits to mankind, we are too likely to look into the past as into a dark night. But the past ages have made their contributions, and none so abundantly as the Renaissance. Of the great social, intellectual and spiritual influences of this splendid time our age has come to recognize Daute as the one adequate representative...