Sinclair Lewis Quote

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.


The American Fear of Literature (Nobel Prize Address, 12 December 1930), in H. Frenz Literature 1901–1967 (1969)


Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.