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Why Artists and Authors Are Way They Are
In this 1924 analysis H L Mencken argues that true artists are marked by heightened sensitivity to their environment and hostility to prevailing conditions. He cites Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Cervantes, and others as examples of persistent critique of their nations, noting Samuel Johnson as an unusual 100 percent English artist.
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Ronment
Dante
Tolstoy
Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Goethe
Heine
Shelley
Byron
Thackeray
Rabelais
Cervantes
Dostoevsky
Carlyle
Moliere
Popé
Spain
Napoleon
Christendom
France
Swift
Samuel Johnson
Roosevelt
Johnson