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Studies and Essays: Concerning Letters by John Galsworthy.
Studies and Essays: Concerning Letters by John Galsworthy.
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A NOVELIST'S ALLEGORY
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When a lantern holder is blamed for every consequence of light of his lantern enabling people to see.
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June 02, 2021 - June 02, 2021.
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SOME PLATITUDES CONCERNING DRAMA
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Galsworthy clarifies drama of his day vs that of Shakespeare, explaining why latter is superior.
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June 02, 2021 - June 02, 2021.
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MEDITATION ON FINALITY
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"In the Grand Canyon of Arizona, that most exhilarating of all natural phenomena, Nature has for once so focussed her effects, that the result is a framed and final work of Art. For there, between two high lines of plateau, level as the sea, are sunk the wrought thrones of the innumerable gods, couchant, and for ever revering, in their million moods of light and colour, the Master Mystery."
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................................................"In the Grand Canyon of Arizona, that most exhilarating of all natural phenomena, Nature has for once so focussed her effects, that the result is a framed and final work of Art. For there, between two high lines of plateau, level as the sea, are sunk the wrought thrones of the innumerable gods, couchant, and for ever revering, in their million moods of light and colour, the Master Mystery."
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June 02, 2021 - June 02, 2021.
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WANTED-SCHOOLING
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"Few of us sit down in cold blood to write our first stories; we have something in us that we feel we must express. This is the beginning of the vicious circle. Our first books often have some thing in them. We are sincere in trying to express that something. It is true we cannot express it, not having learnt how, but its ghost haunts the pages the ghost of real experience and real life—just enough to attract the untrained intelligence, just enough to make a generous Press remark: "This shows promise." We have tasted blood, we pant for more. Those of us who had a carking occupation hasten to throw it aside, those who had no occupation have now found one; some few of us keep both the old occupation and the new. Whichever of these courses we pursue, the hurry with which we pursue it undoes us. For, often we have only that one book in us, which we did not know how to write, and having expressed that which we have felt, we are driven in our second, our third, our fourth, to warm up variations, like those dressed remains of last night's dinner which are served for lunch; or to spin from our usually commonplace imaginations thin extravagances which those who do not try to think for themselves are ever ready to accept as full of inspiration and vitality. ,,, "
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June 02, 2021 - June 02, 2021.
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REFLECTIONS ON OUR DISLIKE OF THINGS AS THEY ARE
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Galsworthy and Mikes noticed the same difference between British vs continental European sensìbilities, from opposite sides of a fence.
"We are, I think, too deeply civilised, so deeply civilised that we have come to look on Nature as indecent."
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June 02, 2021 - June 03, 2021.
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THE WINDLESTRAW
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""There are certain playwrights taking themselves very seriously; might we suggest to them that they are in danger of becoming ridiculous . . . ."
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June 02, 2021 - June 03, 2021.
Purchased June 12, 2021.
Kindle Edition, 38 pages
Published May 16th 2012
ASIN:- B0083ZE1QS
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