Frye and McCullough: Authors For Life.

"Literature doesn’t evolve or improve or progress.” (Frye, p. 9)

What I think Frye means by the above quotation is that unlike science or mathematics, literature does not evolve and advance over time. Instead literature remains constant and may be good or bad relying entirely on the author\s ability. This is is due to literature being entirely based off human emotion, and thus it's up to the authors ability to purvey the emotion clearly, that determines the quality of literature.

I agree with this quote, as readers today can go back and read Shakespeare and still view it as a great piece. This is unlike science and math where the thoughts and theories of one can be viewed as wrong post mortem, and be viewed as unintelligent.

Yes this quote is comparable to McCullough’s speech “The Love of Learning”. It is comparable as both works emphasize that literature helps develop human emotion and culture while remaining constant, teaching many generations all the sides of one coin from one work. Both also state that science and math although advancing do not help one truly learn of the world, but help explain the world around them.