Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 65
... critical " . And he said : " They ought to just take a book and give themselves to it ... They ought not to apply their standards ... to it , until afterwards . " It is this voluntary suspension of judgment until the whole work has been ...
... critical " . And he said : " They ought to just take a book and give themselves to it ... They ought not to apply their standards ... to it , until afterwards . " It is this voluntary suspension of judgment until the whole work has been ...
Page 73
... critical of others , but at the same time defensively quizzing himself at the bidding of what the American dramatist , S. N. Behrman , called " the second man ” . This was something new in English literature . It was the product of ...
... critical of others , but at the same time defensively quizzing himself at the bidding of what the American dramatist , S. N. Behrman , called " the second man ” . This was something new in English literature . It was the product of ...
Page 90
... critical or the ironic . No ; but it took the critical in its stride . Its first aim was merriment . And it thus became the latest instance in which the English conception of humour was expressed . That conception is , as it were ...
... critical or the ironic . No ; but it took the critical in its stride . Its first aim was merriment . And it thus became the latest instance in which the English conception of humour was expressed . That conception is , as it were ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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