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Make a precis of the following passage :

It is often said that literature is an index, indeed the principal index, of the soul of an age, and that to understand the spirit of any historical period, we should look first of all to the books that were being read by the people of the time. It is, however much too easy to suppose that the books we today value and associate with a particular period were valued in an equal degree by the writer`s contemporaries. In point of face, literary repute of the kind which ultimately establishes a work as a classic is very often of slow growth. John keat`s poem remained almost unknown to his own generation. It was only among the second generation after his dealth that his genius became widely recognized. It is important to remember that a great part of the reading done in any age is of the better books of a rather older generation.

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Importance of literature
Precis:
Literature is principal index of any historical period. Books have given equal values at every era. Literature develop slowly. John Keat’s was reconzined in consequent generation due to his poem. Better books are the need of every generation.
 

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Make a precis of the following passage :

It is often said that literature is an index, indeed the principal index, of the soul of an age, and that to understand the spirit of any historical period, we should look first of all to the books that were being read by the people of the time. It is, however much too easy to suppose that the books we today value and associate with a particular period were valued in an equal degree by the writer`s contemporaries. In point of face, literary repute of the kind which ultimately establishes a work as a classic is very often of slow growth. John keat`s poem remained almost unknown to his own generation. It was only among the second generation after his dealth that his genius became widely recognized. It is important to remember that a great part of the reading done in any age is of the better books of a rather older generation.

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Title:
Importance of literature
Precis:
Literature is principal index of any historical period. Books have given equal values at every era. Literature develop slowly. John Keat’s was reconzined in consequent generation due to his poem. Better books are the need of every generation.

Precis has to give a summary of what is the passage's argument. You did not do that. You just gave component pieces but neglected to put them together -- what's the main argument of the paragraph you read?
 
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