Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: VOL.1,1931-1935 Edited by Anne Olivier Bell Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 402 pages...
Tuesday. Another day, another book by Virginia Woolf. Dead for 41 years, yet her output still rolling off the presses almost faster than one can read it. Leave aside the novels, biographies and critical collections in her own lifetime. What about the nearly 4,000 letters in six volumes that finished coming out in 1980? The countless essays and fugitive pieces being sorted and shuffled in various miscellanies? And now these reams of diaries, to be concluded in a fifth volume. What energy! What fluency! After writing final words of The Common Reader, Second Series, she jotted in a diary...
Thursday. Tried to convince myself that all this darting observation and febrile sensitivity of Woolf's is getting boring. Lost the argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...
...Vietnam War but are enough he admit their lust for the trend setter bunne. No, they must still atone for their occasional outbrusts of sarcasm or thier lingering interests in science fiction. Predominantly male (but includeng a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf) the special interest partisans the hope and promise of their generation...
...When Woolf wrote those words, some women might work, and a woman alone had to work. Now, more and more, women must work. During the early 1970s, work was often a matter of finding pride and alternatives. There was much discussion...