Fisher's Ghost, and Other EssaysF.W. Cheshire, 1950 - 208 pages |
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... writer . It is not necessary to share Flaubert's opinion that the best literature is written in words of three letters . There is , however , more to be said for the view that wooden writing comes from wooden thinking . So a pessimist ...
... writer . It is not necessary to share Flaubert's opinion that the best literature is written in words of three letters . There is , however , more to be said for the view that wooden writing comes from wooden thinking . So a pessimist ...
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... writers at their greatest moments . The notion of some moderns is that it is more glorious to finalise than to end . When a man's writing comes out in a rash of polysyllables , it is a sign of disease , not of health . Browning did not ...
... writers at their greatest moments . The notion of some moderns is that it is more glorious to finalise than to end . When a man's writing comes out in a rash of polysyllables , it is a sign of disease , not of health . Browning did not ...
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... writing the life of a great man of letters who " touched nothing that he did not adorn . " Even in his perfunctory ... writer , or as an historian , he stands in the first class . Whatever he wrote he did better than any other man could ...
... writing the life of a great man of letters who " touched nothing that he did not adorn . " Even in his perfunctory ... writer , or as an historian , he stands in the first class . Whatever he wrote he did better than any other man could ...
Contents
FISHERS GHOSTTWO SIDELIGHTS | 1 |
THAT WORD AGAIN | 16 |
THE ESSENTIAL MURDOCH | 33 |
Copyright | |
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