A quote from CS Lewis’ ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY EXCLUDING DRAMA. Here is the speaking of the sudden cessation of Scottish poetry.
But however we explain the phenomenon, it forces on our minds a truth which the incurably evolutionary or developmental character of modern thought is always urging us to forget. What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive. Higher organisms are often conquered by lower ones. Arts as well as men are subject to accident and violent death.
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