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This article is taken from PN Review 13, Volume 6 Number 5, May - June 1980.

Alan Garner

In the Seventeenth Century, just before the third and flatulent invasion by Latin, English achieved an elegance of Germanic and Romance integration that it has not captured since. We respond instinctively to its excellence. The Bible had the good fortune to be translated into this excellence, and the debility of English thereafter is plotted in all subsequent failures to improve on that text.
-ALAN GARNER

This article is taken from PN Review 13, Volume 6 Number 5, May - June 1980.

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	This article is taken from PN Review 13, Volume 6 Number 5, May - June 1980. Alan Garner In the Seventeenth Century, just before the third and flatulent invasion by Latin, English achieved an elegance of Germanic and Romance integration that it has not captured since. We respond instinctively to its excellence. The Bible had the good fortune to be translated into this excellence, and the debility of English thereafter is plotted in all subsequent failures to improve on that text. -ALAN GARNER This article is taken from PN Review 13, Volume 6 Number 5, May - June 1980. Readers are asked to send a note of any misprints or mistakes that they spot in this article to editor@pnreview.co.uk Share this article...
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