 Evert Augustus Duyckinck commented that " the thought [ of a national literature ] seems to have entered and taken possession of [ Griswold 's ] mind with the force of <unk> " . Poet Philip Pendleton Cooke questioned Griswold 's sincerity , saying he " should have loved [ it ] ... better than to say it " . By the 1850s , Griswold 's literary nationalism had subsided somewhat , and he began following the more popular contemporary trend of reading literature from England , France , and Germany . He disassociated himself from the " absurd notion ... that we are to create an entirely new literature " . 
