# Quote — Terry Eagleton, Against the Grain

> Chaucer was a class traitor
>
> Shakespeare hated the mob
>
> Donne sold out a bit later
>
> Sidney was a nob.

- Author: [Terry Eagleton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-eagleton.md)
- Book: [Against the Grain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-eagleton/against-the-grain.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-eagleton/against-the-grain/chaucer-was-a-class

## More from this book

> All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-eagleton/against-the-grain/all-propaganda-or-popularization.md)

> Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-eagleton/against-the-grain/readers-are-less.md)