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 434
... poets were fright- ened away . For of course poetry has always been overwhelmingly on the side of beauty . She has always insisted on certain rights , such as rhyme , metre , poetic diction . She has never been used for the common pur ...
... poets were fright- ened away . For of course poetry has always been overwhelmingly on the side of beauty . She has always insisted on certain rights , such as rhyme , metre , poetic diction . She has never been used for the common pur ...
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... poets was the most practical of men . 17 Hence , says Professor Peck , from this union of poetry and humanity springs the true value of Shelley's poetry . It was the poetry of a man who was not a ' pure poet ' , but a poet with a pas ...
... poets was the most practical of men . 17 Hence , says Professor Peck , from this union of poetry and humanity springs the true value of Shelley's poetry . It was the poetry of a man who was not a ' pure poet ' , but a poet with a pas ...
Pagina 644
... poetry , 362 ; self - suffi- ciency of 363 ; Mr Cameron perfectly happy reciting , 383 ; steeps of , a necessity ... poetry , 32 ; Austen's modest everyday , 41 ; and Plato's extravagant flights of poetry , 50 ; in- fluences of voyages ...
... poetry , 362 ; self - suffi- ciency of 363 ; Mr Cameron perfectly happy reciting , 383 ; steeps of , a necessity ... poetry , 32 ; Austen's modest everyday , 41 ; and Plato's extravagant flights of poetry , 50 ; in- fluences of voyages ...
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This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
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