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Excerpt from English Literature From Widsith to the Death of Chaucer: A Source Book
I take the anthology first; because, since this volume is a collection of quotations, it may most easily be confused therewith. But to point out the difference between them is not difficult. The object of an anthology is to present to a reader, who perhaps has neither time nor inclination to examine the whole product, samples of the best literary product of an epoch or of a nation best in technique and in content, appealing to the taste which every cultivated person aspires to have. The object of a source-book is to present to a reader, who has perhaps little leisure and meager library resources at his disposal, such documents from an age as fundamentally explain the life, ideals, and spirit thereof. An anthology aims to form taste; a source-book, to train judgment. The former is a means to appreciation; the latter, to scholarship.
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