Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimental writers of the early 20th century were men and women with a high sense of mission. Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf-each sought a new way to get some of the juice of life on to the printed page. Their imitators have chiefly proved that most of them are. in a broad sense, inimitable...
...fact that it is well taught and well received does not make English 10 what is needed. Omitting such authors as Byron, Shelly, Browning, Forester and Woolf, it does not pretend to be comprehensive. At the same time not enough is read of any single author to give the student a complete view of him. Nor is it a survey course's function to do so. Instead, it should touch on more major authors, reading less of each to make up for the increase in number. This would help broaden the student's grasp of English literature...
...prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's. They include little-known works by little-read writers as well as little read works by well-known writers: Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf. Few readers will like all of these stories, but almost everybody will be entertained by some of them...
...whole English-speaking world." Anything that has any bearing "on culture or freedom," explains Editor Kristol. "or preferably both together, will be the hub of the magazine." In its first issue, Encounter prints articles, fiction and poetry by writers from six countries, including the unpublished diaries of Virginia Woolf, essays by France's Albert Camus and British-born Christopher Isherwood, poetry by C. Day Lewis and Edith Sitwell. Among future contributors of articles and fiction for the magazine: Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, W. H. Auden, Aldous
...well as literary subjects in the department of English. His critical interests range from Pindar to modern writers, with special interest in Dryden, the early eighteenth century poets, and Jane Austen. He is the author of "Fields of Light," a study of various literary landmarks from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf...