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1863–1941 United States

Lewis Freeman Mott (1863 – November 20, 1941) was an American literary scholar from New York. He served as president of the Modern Language Association in 1911.

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Again and again we find the same ideas expressed in the same language. In the Provençal lyric formalism crushed and annihilated all freshness and life.

The Provençal Lyric (1901)

Even in the exhortations to the Crusades, love is often more prominent than duty toward God and the Church. Usually it was only at the close of life that the other world cast its shadow upon their thoughts. Many of them, atoning for lighter days by fasting and penance, ended their careers in the cloister.

The Provençal Lyric (1901)

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