David Damrosch is known for his expertise in world literature: how stories travel through space and time, across the world and the calendar. Damrosch focuses on the question, "What is world literature," but in this article, he talks about an example of poetry that some critics thought was too much of one thing for it to be another. Can poetry, or literature, represent multiple worlds even though some worlds might appear similar? Are some worlds full of too much of the same things to be considered different, original, particular, of a particular time and place?
It's probably a good idea to know a little something about who we are reading.
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