I personally think that what passes for literature should be preserved in situ. I think at base it's a way of preserving the First Amendment in time if nothing else.
I recall reading a lot of Kipling with pleasure.

I think the ability to understand those of the past is always tenuous. Someone making this point on the radio said that there could be (had been) more back-and-forth/ disagreements of facts and times, over Elvis' last meal than over many issues one would think both cut-and-dried and significant.

Homer Simpson: "Stuff that happened"