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Originally Posted by kennyc
Golden Ages of literature come and go. This is a historical fact. England had its with authors such as D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and similar writers. In fact, England has had more than one Golden Age if you want to go as far back to the times of Shakespeare and Chaucer.
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People have always shaken their fists at the present day, and said that it didn't live up to the good old days. It is always a golden age of literature. You just don't know at the time what truly is the great literature of that era.
Sure, there are banal, sensational and superficial books written today. The same thing was true in the past. Penny Dreadful anyone? We've just forgotten the forgettable books of the past, just as the forgettable books of today will be forgotten.