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Popular Literature

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    In the first and the second sections of this article we attempted to indicate our notions of 'popular literature' with reference to some of the most important 'popular' books regarded as classics 'in English Literature.' The authors of most of those works were not distinguished either by their birth of by their learning. Bunyan 'mingled with those imaginative scenes of his own familiar scripture imagery and the still more familiar incidents of English village life and told his story of the 'Pilgrim's Progress' in his own familiar language, though the contemporary men of letters despised a little time before the precision of his simple and idiomatic English would be felt and then imitated; Bunyan the tinker is immortalized by his book. The aim of every writer is to reach the heart of his reader and his words never draw to themselves the attention which is to be directed to the ideas underlying them; the medium of communication is perfectly transparent. The novel, which has developed out of Bunyan's  Pilgrims Progress and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, according to Clar Reeve, "given a familiar relation of such things as pass every day