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Essays on the self
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- Book Synopsis
- Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended'. He is, Woolf adds,so complex, so eccentric, that we 'become dazed in the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge'. He was incapable of adopting requisite social modes, of suppressing his obsessive urge to talk, of pandering to the expectations of others. Woolf tries to capture a 'clear picture' of Coleridge but this metaphor is skewed and what she really reveals is a voice - mad and beautiful - never to be heard again:
- About The Author
- Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English novelist, critic and publisher. Her novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and Between the Acts (1941), and her campaigning non-fiction includes A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938). She wrote extensive criticism, often for newspapers, and this was collected in works including The Common Reader (1925 and, second series, 1932). She was co-founder, with her husband Leonard Woolf, of the Hogarth Press. In 1941, Woolf committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Ouse, near her Sussex home.
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- ISBN
- 9781907903922
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions, (01 January 2014)
- Number of Pages
- 182
- Weight
- 222 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 190 x 120 x 18.6 mm
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