Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, 1790-1900 Vol. 4

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In an essay of 1821, Thomas De Quincey insisted that English literature needed the stimulus of foreign literatures: 'So it is with the literatures of whatsoever land: unless crossed by some other of different breed, they all tend to superannuation.'

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