The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928Hogarth Press, 1986 - 653 pagina's Written while Virginia Woolf worked on Orlando, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, and including the complete text of The Common Reader, the essays in this volume explore subjects ranging from the world's greatest books to obscure English lives, confirming Woolf's faith in the value of writing and in the common reader she addresses. |
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Pagina 44
... give off an atmosphere of doubt , of suggestion , of questioning ; but if we look to the choruses to make this plain we are often baffled rather than instructed . At once in the Bacchae we are in the world of psychology and doubt ; the ...
... give off an atmosphere of doubt , of suggestion , of questioning ; but if we look to the choruses to make this plain we are often baffled rather than instructed . At once in the Bacchae we are in the world of psychology and doubt ; the ...
Pagina 45
... give , as Sophocles gives , the very words that people might have spoken , only so arranged that they have in some mysterious way a general force , a symbolic power , nor like Euripides will he combine incongruities and thus enlarge his ...
... give , as Sophocles gives , the very words that people might have spoken , only so arranged that they have in some mysterious way a general force , a symbolic power , nor like Euripides will he combine incongruities and thus enlarge his ...
Pagina 266
... give real beauty to the things which men actually use , and to give to them the shapes which tradition has ordained . ' How easy it is , she said , to impress and sur- prise ; ' to paint a raging sea monster riding a storm'7 any toy ...
... give real beauty to the things which men actually use , and to give to them the shapes which tradition has ordained . ' How easy it is , she said , to impress and sur- prise ; ' to paint a raging sea monster riding a storm'7 any toy ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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