![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Michael Dirda, and Ezra Pound. ![]() With regard to books, what makes a book "classic" has concerned various authors, from Mark Twain to Italo Calvino, and questions such as "Why Read the Classics?", and "What Is a Classic?" have been considered by others, including T. from all traditions, such as the Chinese classics or the Vedas. Although the term is often associated with the Western canon, it can be applied to works of literature, music and art, etc. In the ancient world, at the Alexandrian Library, scholars coined the Greek term Hoi enkrithentes ("the admitted", "the included") to identify the writers in the canon. In contemporary use, the Western canon defines the best of Western culture. Moreover, early Christian Church Fathers used canon to rank the authoritative texts of the New Testament, preserving them, given the expense of vellum and papyrus and mechanical book reproduction, thus, being comprehended in a canon ensured a book's preservation as the best way to retain information about a civilization. Such classification began with the Greeks' ranking their cultural works, with the word canon (ancient Greek κανών, kanṓn: "measuring rod, standard"). scriptor, non proletarius" ("A distinguished, not a commonplace writer"). In the second-century Roman miscellany Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius refers to a writer as "classicus. A classic is a book, or any other work of art, accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy. ![]()
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