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Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult. When you become more aware, the area of moral choice is widened. You can be a better man; you can also be a worse. Literature will not determine which. It is the equivalent of neither grace nor good works.


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1941) where he received the John Addison Porter Prize. He edited the Grove Press issue of Brecht's work and recorded two albums of Brecht's songs for Folkways Records most of which had never before been recorded in English. Bentley is considered one of the preeminent experts on Bertolt Brecht whom he met at UCLA as a young man and whose works he has translated extensively.

From 1960-1961 Bentley was the Norton professor at Harvard University. That same year he declared his homosexuality.

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