Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... æsthetic . So also was his attitude to his work . Unlike most novelists he approaches both his subject - matter and his treatment of it from as æsthetic a point of view as a musician's . It is his æsthetic impulse that makes him write ...
... æsthetic . So also was his attitude to his work . Unlike most novelists he approaches both his subject - matter and his treatment of it from as æsthetic a point of view as a musician's . It is his æsthetic impulse that makes him write ...
Page 162
... æsthetically insignificant she passes by ; or admits only as they may serve as foil to the beauty that precedes and ... Æsthetic experiences are contemplative affairs . So also are the big moments in Virginia Woolf's books . Action ...
... æsthetically insignificant she passes by ; or admits only as they may serve as foil to the beauty that precedes and ... Æsthetic experiences are contemplative affairs . So also are the big moments in Virginia Woolf's books . Action ...
Page 179
... æsthetic satisfaction only in a very limited area of experience : the beautiful for him was mostly to be found in museums . Not so Virginia Woolf . She could find it as much in a scrap of orange peel lying in the gutter as in the Venus ...
... æsthetic satisfaction only in a very limited area of experience : the beautiful for him was mostly to be found in museums . Not so Virginia Woolf . She could find it as much in a scrap of orange peel lying in the gutter as in the Venus ...
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