John Leonard (critic) vs. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
John Leonard (critic)
1890 – 1974
John Dillon Leonard was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic.
"Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?"
Samuel Butler (novelist)
1835 – 1902
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
"All we know is, that even the humblest dead may live along after all trace of the body has disappeared; we see them doing it in the bodies and memories of these…"
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