Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 64
... mind of the reader . The author's talent should have a fair field and no favour . Only when we know what the writer has tried to do , and why he has chosen this way of doing it , should the process of assessment begin . And it should ...
... mind of the reader . The author's talent should have a fair field and no favour . Only when we know what the writer has tried to do , and why he has chosen this way of doing it , should the process of assessment begin . And it should ...
Page 79
... mind , and he has not the exhibi- tionist mind . He is an original . He is an observer who has read many books and reflected much upon them ; but his true interest is not in literature nor the literary . It is in the " whys " and " hows ...
... mind , and he has not the exhibi- tionist mind . He is an original . He is an observer who has read many books and reflected much upon them ; but his true interest is not in literature nor the literary . It is in the " whys " and " hows ...
Page 157
... mind or chase the stream of memory , has become tentative . He does his best to make glance and gesture reveal both character and mood ; but even if he had Dickens's genius he could not accept Dickens's fundamental assumption that a ...
... mind or chase the stream of memory , has become tentative . He does his best to make glance and gesture reveal both character and mood ; but even if he had Dickens's genius he could not accept Dickens's fundamental assumption that a ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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