Excerpt from Spanish Influence on English Literature

IT has always appeared to me as impossible adequately to study the history of a literature as an isolated entity, as it is to follow intelligently the political progress of a country without regard to the con current events and actions of other nations in relation to it. Literatures, whilst in their origin the outcome of distinct national and racial circumstances, never theless act and react strongly upon each other at certain periods, and the student who seeks to un ravel the literary history of his own country with real understanding, should possess, at least, some knowledge of the foreign literatures that have in¿u enced his own, and of the reasons why their in¿uence has been exerted at the periods, and in the directions, that it has.

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