Well. Shakespeare could never get staged today. Nor could "Wuthering Heights" get published. "Leaves of Grass" might get published given Whitman's ability to

Well. Shakespeare could never get staged today. Nor could "Wuthering Heights" get published. "Leaves of Grass" might get published given Whitman's ability to schmooze, and it might even sell as many as 100 copies (pretty good for poetry). The vast bulk of great literature isn't. Gatsy and "Catcher in the Rye" in particular are just mystifyingly dull. There's nothing strange about such opinions now, or then.