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 43
... play how dangerous this poetry , this lapse from the parti- cular to the general must of necessity be , with the actors standing there in person , with their bodies and their faces passively waiting to be made use of ! For this reason ...
... play how dangerous this poetry , this lapse from the parti- cular to the general must of necessity be , with the actors standing there in person , with their bodies and their faces passively waiting to be made use of ! For this reason ...
Pagina 62
... play we are overcome by the extraordinary discrepancy between the Elizabethan view of reality and our own . The reality to which we have grown accus- tomed is , speaking roughly , based upon the life and death of some knight called ...
... play we are overcome by the extraordinary discrepancy between the Elizabethan view of reality and our own . The reality to which we have grown accus- tomed is , speaking roughly , based upon the life and death of some knight called ...
Pagina 66
... play with prose , and the play , after all , is poetry . The play is poetry , we say , and the novel prose . Let us attempt to obliterate detail , and place the two before us side by side , feeling , so far as we can , the angles and ...
... play with prose , and the play , after all , is poetry . The play is poetry , we say , and the novel prose . Let us attempt to obliterate detail , and place the two before us side by side , feeling , so far as we can , the angles and ...
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This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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