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It is an interesting fact that the
four men who have been ac-
cepted as the greatest writers who
have yet appeared, used either the
epic or the dramatic form. It can
hardly have been accidental that
Homer and Dante gave their great-
est work the epic form, and that
Shakespeare and Goethe were in
their most fortunate moments dram-
atists. There must have been some
reason in the nature of things for
this choice of two literary forms
which, differing widely in other re-
spects, have this in common, that
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