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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... minds and bodies , frequently put us into that state of mind in which poetry is a necessity . The sight of a crocus in a garden will suddenly bring to mind all the spring days that have ever been . One then desires the general , not the ...
... minds and bodies , frequently put us into that state of mind in which poetry is a necessity . The sight of a crocus in a garden will suddenly bring to mind all the spring days that have ever been . One then desires the general , not the ...
Pagina 397
... mind complete . Some process seems to have been finished without one's being aware of it . The different details which have accumulated in reading assemble themselves in their proper places . The book takes on a definite shape ; it ...
... mind complete . Some process seems to have been finished without one's being aware of it . The different details which have accumulated in reading assemble themselves in their proper places . The book takes on a definite shape ; it ...
Pagina 433
... mind . Feelings which used to come simple and separate do so no longer . Beauty is part ugliness ; amusement part disgust ; pleasure part pain . Emotions which used to enter the mind whole are now broken up on the threshhold . For ...
... mind . Feelings which used to come simple and separate do so no longer . Beauty is part ugliness ; amusement part disgust ; pleasure part pain . Emotions which used to enter the mind whole are now broken up on the threshhold . For ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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