You don't have to appreciate something you dislike. Maybe later in life you'll look back on your own old favorites and find yourself surprised that there are objectionable passages waiting for you.

That happened to me and it gave me some perspective on how completely many of us are steeped in our contemporary society. And then you start to see and appreciate those early visionaries who realized that no, everything wasn't ok. The world needs changing. In ways we never even thought of.

To me that's just one of the important perspectives that reading both old and new literature can give a person.