The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... gifts that seemed to me much superior to mine . They could write and draw and compose with a facility that aroused my envy . They had an appreciation of art and a critical instinct that I despaired of attaining . Of these some died ...
... gifts that seemed to me much superior to mine . They could write and draw and compose with a facility that aroused my envy . They had an appreciation of art and a critical instinct that I despaired of attaining . Of these some died ...
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... gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an exceptional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius . Nor would it be easy in English litera- ture to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one ...
... gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an exceptional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius . Nor would it be easy in English litera- ture to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one ...
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... gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are . It is as though he wanted urgently to see a certain thing and by the act of looking at it drew before it a veil that obscured it . The writer stands outside the very action he is ...
... gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are . It is as though he wanted urgently to see a certain thing and by the act of looking at it drew before it a veil that obscured it . The writer stands outside the very action he is ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth