Hi, Anton! Recently you wrote in a message to Dallas Hinton:

DH>  "Presents" or "presented" becomes a matter of how
DH>  it sounds and feels - neither is exclusively right
DH>  or wrong.

AS>  I disagree. The present simple is *the* tense when
AS>  writing about literature, perhaps because good
AS>  literature is timeless :-?


           While it may be de rigueur among academicians when one is writing an
essay about classic literature, the situation is not so cut & dried when I have
a comment to make about a piece of non-fiction which has been revised & updated
several times... or about a novel which has already lapsed into obscurity.

           Bottom line is, we have seen & heard both options used....  :-)




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