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In the articles that I read the critics are giving Ernest Hemingway great praise for his work stated,he is the best writer of that era. One critic states from the New York Times said that Ernest was a brother to him. Van Wyck Brooks states that Ernest was a twentieth century Mark Twain. A lot of critics took his work and tried to use it with a lot of work that they had accomplished. Oliver Larfarge states that Ernest later pieces of work fell off. I would have to agree with him on that as Ernest got a little big headed and took a lot of his cockiness to his writing. I don’t think he took his writing seriiously to the end of his writing career. Robert Frost states in the article from New York Times that he gave him time to make him the greatest

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