ORIGINAL PARAGRAPH(2007)
The author of a work of imagination is trying to effect us wholly, as human beings, whether he knows it or not; and we are affected by it, as human beings, whether we intend to be or not. I suppose that everything we eat has some effect upon us than merely the pleasure of taste and mastication; it affects us during the process of assimilation and digestion; and I believe that exactly the same is true of any thing we read.
The fact that what we read does not concern merely something called our literary taste, but that it affects directly, though only amongst many other influences , the whole of what we are, is best elicited , I think, by a conscientious examination of the history of our individual literary education. Consider the adolescent reading of any person with some literary sensibility. Everyone, I believe, who is at all sensible to the seductions of poetry, can remember some moment in youth when he or she was completely carried away by the work of one poet. Very likely he was carried away by several poets, one after the other. The reason for this passing infatuation is not merely that our sensibility to poetry is keener in adolescence than in maturity. What happens is a kind of inundation, or invasion of the undeveloped personality, the empty (swept and garnished) room, by the stronger personality of the poet. The same thing may happen at a later age to persons who have not done much reading. One author takes complete possession of us for a time; then another, and finally they begin to affect each other in our mind. We weigh one against another; we see that each has qualities absent from others, and qualities incompatible with the qualities of others: we begin to be, in fact, critical: and it is our growing critical power which protects us from excessive possession by anyone literary personality. The good critic- and we should all try to critics, and not leave criticism to the fellows who write reviews in the papers- is the man who, to a keen and abiding sensibility, joins wide and increasingly discriminating. Wide reading is not valuable as a kind of hoarding, and the accumulation of knowledge or what sometimes is meant by the term ‘a well-stocked mind.’ It is valuable because in the process of being affected by one powerful personality after another, we cease to be dominated by anyone, or by any small number. The very different views of life, cohabiting in our minds, affect each other, and our own personality asserts itself and gives each a place in some arrangement peculiar to our self.
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PRECIS:
A fiction writer has great influence on one’s personality through his literary wok. Just like food we eat is not for palate but to nourish our body. Same reading just not exhibit one’s literary taste but it is one of the factors in one’s personality building.Observing stages of one’s life, In youth one is much attracted to poetry of one writer or many this is not because that in this age one has better understanding of poetry but dominating personality of poet overpowered one’s immature mind through his work. As in later age going through many writers work one start comparison of their work which produce characteristics of analytical criticism so wide and variety of readings produce a critic in one’s personality who does not rely on others criticism. Wide reading is not to store bulk of information in mind rather by reading various works one leave no room for anyone to over-power one’s mind. A good understanding and familiarity with different views develop and enhance our very own personality.
Title: Influence of readings or influence of readings on personality building

Good precis but your title is not the whole reflection of the para, it is developed over the period of time as man is wept in adolescence by a particular writer but in maturity he is not etc...

My title would be, Influence of Literature and its development in life.

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