Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... literary friends for poems and stories to fit pictures already drawn , and even , in that strange miscellany , Recollections of a Literary Life , indiscreetly wrote of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's personal affairs in a way which ...
... literary friends for poems and stories to fit pictures already drawn , and even , in that strange miscellany , Recollections of a Literary Life , indiscreetly wrote of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's personal affairs in a way which ...
Page 65
... literary smart set , no analysis is attempted . All that is said is , " Such a good book ! " or " So bad ! " - a verdict to which all within hearing hastily agree lest they should be considered unfashionable . Nobody , in my experience ...
... literary smart set , no analysis is attempted . All that is said is , " Such a good book ! " or " So bad ! " - a verdict to which all within hearing hastily agree lest they should be considered unfashionable . Nobody , in my experience ...
Page 79
... literary man . A reader once complained to me , and with justice , that as a literary commentator I betrayed no pure literary predilections . “ You never devote your page , " he said fretfully , " to the influence of the Pleiades . You ...
... literary man . A reader once complained to me , and with justice , that as a literary commentator I betrayed no pure literary predilections . “ You never devote your page , " he said fretfully , " to the influence of the Pleiades . You ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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