Willa Cather moved to the forms of art that would get to the actual transference and the true desire of art without those cultural or artistic boundaries—and in that the Being itself and the vitalness of the art would be the cultural structure, not by-passed in missed direction. Seeded in the strongest, most vital, individualistic earth, and grow her beyond the boundaries into Beingness was the ancient and the newly-realized complete strength and freedom of life itself.
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Many years ago scholar Tom Quirk showed how F. Scott Fitzgerald while writing The Great Gatsby (1925) was influenced by/and or plagiarized Willa Cather's writing. Fitzgerald himself had to admit it at the success of his novel. In particular, that he had been so deeply affected by what she was tapping into I believe that he also wanted to know and present that feminine ardor of presence Willa was able to emanate off the page. Quirk wrote, "Willa Cather had written Fitzgerald of her admiration of Gatsby in the spring of 1925; the next fall she would begin to write what she ultimately considered her finest novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)." On 28 April 1925--now 99 1/2...
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