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So it's like people in the 90's claiming that The Sonics were the original Grunge band. Take a term and attempt to pinpoint the earliest instances of what it supposedly describes, some time before its actual introduction into the lexicon.The term only came into existence in the 20th century, which sort of prohibits the admission of fine fellows like Matthew Arnold. However, Dover Beach (love that poem, by the way, thanks for mentioning it, ecib) clearly demonstrates that the postmodern shift was prefigured in previous ones,