It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.
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①It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.
?、赮et a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.
③To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.
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?、傥覒岩?,年齡在 40 歲以下的普通讀者無法想象那樣一個(gè)能夠在大部分的大城市報(bào)紙上找到高質(zhì)量的文藝評論的時(shí)代。
②然而有大量在 20 世紀(jì)出版的具有最重要意義的評論作品在報(bào)紙?jiān)u論中占據(jù)了很大部分。
?、廴缃袢プx這種書籍會(huì)使人們對這樣一種事實(shí)感到大為驚訝,那就是這些書籍廣博的內(nèi)容曾經(jīng)被人們認(rèn)為很適合在面對大眾發(fā)行的日報(bào)上刊登。