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A English Literature: why should we study it? When we read the rich variety of novels, poems, and plays which constitute English literature, we are reading works which have lasted for generations, or centuries, and they have lasted because they are good. These works sat something worth saying. Literature is part of the cultural heritage which is freely available to everyone, and which can enrich our lives in all kinds of ways. They can convey thought, richness of emotion, and insight into character. 1 . They deepen our understanding of our history, our society, and our own lives. 2 It can take us in our imaginations back to the roots of our culture and increase our understanding of our modern world. Literature can also enrich our experience in other ways too. Good words of literature are not museum pieces, preserved and studied only for historical interest. They last because they remain fresh as well as showing the times when they were written. Each reader reading each work is a new event and the works speak to us now telling us truths about human life. We can gain a lot from literature in many ways. 3 Such moments can help validate （证实）our personal experience at a depth which is rarely reached by everyday life. 4 Well, we don’t need to, but when we visit a country for the first time it can help to have books by people who have been there before by our side. When we start to read literature, particularly older works, we have to make an effort to accommodate （适应） to the writer’s use of language and to appreciate the ideas he is offering. Critics can help fill our out understanding by telling which a work was written or about the personal circumstances of the author while he was writing it. We are not going to enjoy every literary work. 5 Good literature lasts forever. A. B. C. So why do we need to study English literature, instead of just reading it? Literature can give us some information of much earlier ages. And our feeling for nature can be deepened when a landsc