FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on Oct. 7, 1953.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.”

Preface to English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Written 10/7/1953)