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“But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.”

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

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Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

This volume gathers the complete literary output of Lytton Strachey, a key figure in the Bloomsbury Group known for his innovative biographical style. It includes his major works such as 'Eminent Victorians' and 'Queen Victoria', along with his essays, shorter writings, and correspondence. The illustrated edition features visual materials that complement the text, offering readers a thorough overview of Strachey's contributions to modern biography and early 20th-century English literature. more

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Lytton Strachey

British writer known for his profound analysis of Victorian figures. Strachey is celebrated for his unique literary style and delicate portrayal of character psychology. more

“Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.”

Writing Heart Persons Moments Use Poetry Loses Loneliness Poet Balance Pure Bed Cease Contact Instant Slips Shells Intrusion Hermits Crabs Hermit Crabs

Author:Jack Spicer

“One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology, religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's own life. I still feel surprised that such various substances can find shelter and nourishment in a poem. A poem in fact may be a sort of nourishing liquid, such as one uses to keep an amoeba alive. If prepared right, a poem can keep an image or a thought or insights on history or the psyche alive for years, as well as our desires and airy impulses.”

“In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.”

Audience Bars Defined Relate Score Strict Punctuation

Author:Ralph Richardson

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