A chronicle is very different from history proper. — Quoted

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“A chronicle is very different from history proper.”

Howard Nemerov · History

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

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