On Emily Dickinson: "An eccentric, dreamy, half-educated recluse in an out-of-the-way New England village - or anywhere else - cannot with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravity and grammar ... Oblivion lingers in the immediate neighborhood." (Atlantic Monthly)
On Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick": "an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter of fact ... Mr. Melville has to thank himself only if his errors and his heroics are flung aside by the general reader as so much trash belonging to the worst school of Bedlam literature - since he seems not so much unable to learn as disdainful of learning the craft of an artist." (Athenaeum)
On Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse": "Her work is poetry, it must be judged as poetry, and all the weaknesses of poetry are inherent in it." (New York Evening Post)
On Emily Dickinson: "An eccentric, dreamy, half-educated recluse in an out-of-the-way New England village - or anywhere else - cannot with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravity and grammar ... Oblivion lingers in the immediate neighborhood." (Atlantic Monthly)
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ReplyDeleteOn Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse": "Her work is poetry, it must be judged as poetry, and all the weaknesses of poetry are inherent in it." (New York Evening Post)
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