Yet he could perceive religious impulses in imaginative literature that did not have patent religious designs.

Always having been a voracious reader, he now began reading in philosophy, as he had not done for some years, and also in imaginative literature.

Authors under the age of 41 are awarded on the quality of their imaginative literature which can be written in either poetry or prose.

The antagonism was only exacerbated by the publication of defensive editorials which argued that separatism and elitism create the assurances of liberty to foster imaginative literature.

He also affirmed the respectability and legitimacy of the novel as a genre, arguing that imaginative literature, especially narrative, was more valuable than history or biography.