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Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)

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iFERhat Zitat gemachtvor 8 Monaten
The truth is that I have an internal, automatic scale of values; which decides what I had better do with my time.
LiterariaLetterhat Zitat gemachtvor 10 Monaten
Monday, August 5th.

While waiting to buy a book in which to record my impressions first of Christina Rossetti, then of Byron, I had better write them here. For one thing I have hardly any money left, having bought Leconte de Lisle in great quantities. Christina has the great distinction of being a born poet, as she seems to have known very well herself. But if I were bringing a case against God she is one of the first witnesses I should call. It is melancholy reading. First she starved herself of love, which I meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded. There were two good suitors. The first indeed had his peculiarities. He had a conscience. She could only marry a particular shade of Christian.
LiterariaLetterhat Zitat gemachtvor 10 Monaten
Poetry was castrated too. She would set herself to do the psalms into verse; and to make all her poetry subservient to the Christian doctrines.
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