Dorothy Sayers on young people and literature

Dorothy Sayers contended:

...There is, in fact, an optimum age for encountering every work of art; did we but know, in each man's case, what it was, we might plan our educational schemes accordingly. Since our way of life makes this impossible, we can only pray to be saved from murdering delight before it is born.

Amanda Witt has more of the passage, plus a bit of discussion.