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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Page 94
... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell ...
... literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell ...
Page 101
... literature with complete intimacy . For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral ...
... literature with complete intimacy . For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral ...
Page 102
... literature ; other countries , with the exception of England , have great writers , rather than a great literature ; and its influence on the rest of the world has , till the last twenty years , been pro- found . It is very well to be ...
... literature ; other countries , with the exception of England , have great writers , rather than a great literature ; and its influence on the rest of the world has , till the last twenty years , been pro- found . It is very well to be ...
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