Explore "The Spirit of Place" by D.H. Lawrence on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
We like to think of the old-fashioned American classics as children's books. Just childishness, on our part.
The old American art-speech contains an alien quality, which belongs to the American continent and to nowhere else. But, of course, so long as we insist on reading the books as children's tales, we miss all that.