“I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.” MatterGrantedOriginality Author:Paul Fry
“Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.” SometimesMatterCareDoubtCenturyBrilliantFeaturesNo DoubtOriginality20th CenturyNaiveSpontaneityRomanticismHallmark Author:Paul Fry
“The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.” MindMatterHappensReadingFictionCompanyEffectsCoinsNon FictionKenneth Author:Paul Fry