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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... poets again . England was an unspoilt country . His eyes rested on a virgin land , all unbroken grass and wood except for ... poet , with Birmingham , Man- chester , and London the size they are , the country is the sanctuary of moral ...
... poets again . England was an unspoilt country . His eyes rested on a virgin land , all unbroken grass and wood except for ... poet , with Birmingham , Man- chester , and London the size they are , the country is the sanctuary of moral ...
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... poets only become mature when they are old . The poet's task is harder than it was . He requires an austerity which is difficult for the young ; must have felt the lure of language and not yielded to it ; and must have said so many ...
... poets only become mature when they are old . The poet's task is harder than it was . He requires an austerity which is difficult for the young ; must have felt the lure of language and not yielded to it ; and must have said so many ...
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... poets to imagine for us . The duty of Heaven - making should be attached to the office of Poet Laureate . - - Indeed , it is to the poets that we turn . Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts . We cannot ...
... poets to imagine for us . The duty of Heaven - making should be attached to the office of Poet Laureate . - - Indeed , it is to the poets that we turn . Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts . We cannot ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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