The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1919-1924Hogarth Press, 1986 - 551 pagina's This is the third volume in a series on the complete non-fiction work of Virginia Woolf, which contains her essays, diaries and letters. This particular book is a compilation of Virginia Woolf's reviews and essays, including 80 previously uncollected pieces, spanning the years 1919-1924, while she worked on her novels "Night and Day", "Jacob's Room" and "Mrs Dalloway" and edited works such as T.S.Eliot's "The Wasteland" for The Hogarth Press. They reveal not only her talent as a critic and essayist, but also provide an insight into her understanding of writing, her creativity and her opinions on plays, films and paintings. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of English literature's greatest writers renowned for her novels, stories, diaries and letters. With her husband Leonard Woolf, she founded The Hogarth Press. |
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... wish ; and for what reason a work of such originality yet fails to compare , for we must take high examples , with ' Youth ' or Jude the Obscure . ' It fails , one might say simply , because of the comparative poverty of the writer's ...
... wish ; and for what reason a work of such originality yet fails to compare , for we must take high examples , with ' Youth ' or Jude the Obscure . ' It fails , one might say simply , because of the comparative poverty of the writer's ...
Pagina 300
... wish it were better – ( odd that I wrote that genuinely meaning it ; but I couldn't have done so with the novels [ which she had previously been discussing ] ) . What a subject ! That one should see it as a superb subject is a tribute ...
... wish it were better – ( odd that I wrote that genuinely meaning it ; but I couldn't have done so with the novels [ which she had previously been discussing ] ) . What a subject ! That one should see it as a superb subject is a tribute ...
Pagina 305
... Wishes , Gray's Poems , Richardson's Clarissa , Addison's Cato , Pope's Essay on Man . No one could wish for a more distinguished company . At the same time , as literary critics are too little aware , a love of literature is often ...
... Wishes , Gray's Poems , Richardson's Clarissa , Addison's Cato , Pope's Essay on Man . No one could wish for a more distinguished company . At the same time , as literary critics are too little aware , a love of literature is often ...
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