Wimsatt right off the bat attacks what he calls "the Romantic understanding of literature."

文萨特从一开始就反对他成为,“浪漫解读文学“的方法“

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He represents them as overheated attempts at literature, as dripping with a kind of excess, romantic excess, as essentially unable to do more than repeat a tradition.

他将这些炙热的情感放到文学里，流露出过度的浪漫，重复传统，无法超越。

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