The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
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- Author: Elizabeth Hardwick and Darryl Pinckney
- ASIN: B01N6TOZVU
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N6TOZVU
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Highlights
There “had been room for decline … and the opportunity has been taken.” Sunday mornings with the book reviews is “a dismal experience.” She was just getting started. “The flat praise and the faint dissension, the minimal style and the light little article, the absence of involvement, passion, character, eccentricity—the lack, at last, of the literary tone itself—have made The New York Times into a provincial literary journal.” — location: 150
Yes, Valéry works in the morning and at eleven o’clock his work for the day is finished. — location: 272
This collection is one long stutter, not about Eliot’s greatness, but before the unique and almost revolutionary act of proclaiming this greatness in anything except an “objective” critical essay. — location: 330