Forlag Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Utgivelsesår 1992
Format Paperback
ISBN13 9781853260216
Språk Engelsk
Sider 768
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketTo say truth, nothing is more erroneous than the common observation, that men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when they are drunk, are very worthless persons when they are sober: for drink, in reality, doth not reverse nature, or create passion in men which did not exist in them before,
"Oh! sir," answered Jones, "it is as possible for a man to know something without having been at school; as it is to have been at school and to know nothing."
Bloom skriver om "The Aristocratic Age" (år 1321-1832):
- - - It is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy through Goethe's Faust, Part Two [1321-1832], an era that gives us a huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English, French, and German. In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not mention individual works by a canonical master, and in other instances I attempt to call attention to authors and books that I consider canonical but rather neglected. From this list onward, many good writers who are not quite central are omitted.