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Warren for their reading of certain chapters; Miss Alison
White for close, devoted assistance throughout the composition
of the book.
The authors wish to acknowledge also the kindness of certain
editors and publishers in permitting the incorporation of some
passages from their earlier writings into the present book: to
the Louisiana University Press and Cleanth Brooks, former edi-
tor of the Southern Review (for "Mode of Existence of the
Literary Work") ; to the University of North Carolina Press
(for a portion of "Literary History," in Literary Scholarship,
ed. Foerster, 1941); to the Columbia University Press (for
passages from "Periods and Movements in Literary History"
and "The Parallelism between Literature and the Arts" in the
English Institute Annuals, 1940 and 1041 s
); to the Philosophi-
cal Library (for passages from "The Revolt against Positivism"
and "Literature and Society," in Twentieth Century English,
ed. Knickerbocker, 1946); and to John Palmer, editor of the
Sewanee Review for "The Graduate Study of Literature."
New Haven, May 1, 1948
Rene Wellek
Austin Warren