In addition, because of the strictly verbal experience of literature, the critic must take care to ascertain that the author and he have similar understandings of what the verbiage expresses, both denotatively and connotatively. The critic cannot expect the concrete experiences of an Eighteenth century poet, for example, to exactly match his own. As the milieu changes so also does the language change. Yet, much of what can be known about other people and other times comes from this adjusting. Measuring what is different and by how much can reveal to the critic in a more personal and visceral way just how similar or different the world today is to that of yesterday.
Literature is a discovery of the transient and the durable from the past and the present.
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