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Wallace Stevens - Nothing could be more inappropriate...
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. (Wallace Stevens)

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

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