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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... literature ' in the time of Hawthorne , Emerson , and Lowell was much of a piece with contemporary English literature , and the present movement towards a national literature is confined to a few enthusiasts and extremists who will grow ...
... literature ' in the time of Hawthorne , Emerson , and Lowell was much of a piece with contemporary English literature , and the present movement towards a national literature is confined to a few enthusiasts and extremists who will grow ...
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... Literature has to say ? ' Scott tomorrow - not a poet I think but fine old man . Good old Scott . " " The weak point in William [ Blake ] is not his Reason , which is A.1 , but his im- agination ... Wonderful things the inspired old ...
... Literature has to say ? ' Scott tomorrow - not a poet I think but fine old man . Good old Scott . " " The weak point in William [ Blake ] is not his Reason , which is A.1 , but his im- agination ... Wonderful things the inspired old ...
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... literature'.22 When the guns fired in August 1914 no one saluted them more rapturously than the Professor of English Literature at Oxford . ' The air is better to breathe than it has been for years , ' he exclaimed . ' I'm glad I lived ...
... literature'.22 When the guns fired in August 1914 no one saluted them more rapturously than the Professor of English Literature at Oxford . ' The air is better to breathe than it has been for years , ' he exclaimed . ' I'm glad I lived ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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