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What Is Literature: A Brief Survey of Answers (399 words) |
 | Literature is an imitation of nature that is executed not by copying nature directly but rather by imitating the works and techniques of previous writers who are somehow "closer" to nature and to the original. |
| Literature is an imitation which has been judged to have value over a period of centuries as a true but general reflection of human nature in a variety of real or imaginary circumstances. |
| Literature is "the best of what has been thought and written." Poetry, at least, is an imitation of a noble action and ought to impart pleasure by permitting a "vent in action" of emotions which would otherwise be stifling. |
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