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In my opinion, the selection criteria for this volume have dated badly in the fifty years that have elapsed since it was first published. First of all, the most recent essays included are Virginia Woolf´s 1932 How Should One Read a Book and T. S. Elliot´s 1932 essays and criticism has come a long way in the eighty odd years that have elapsed since then -there is the whole of postmodernism to take into account, not to mention the fascinating strides mades in shakespearean literary criticism. Seco...
As the world worlds there is no precognition for how it will unfold, no manifest destiny, no teleological certainty for the future until it happens and then all gets understood from the now but only by the now. The last essay warns about looking at the past through the certainty of today’s eyes. Of course, T.S. Eliot does it way more elegantly than I can. What’s not to like with these essays? They are how someone from 1963 thought about his own time as he chose previous time period essays on how...
I am glad I read this collection of essays because most of them pertain to the topic of literature, although I do disagree in calling all of them as "critical" essays because some writers entirely wrote about their experiences regarding their exposures to literature such as a classic play, or an author. However, when a critical essay do come, they really are critical to the point that you could sense some hatred or passion towards the subject at hand. For example, Schopenhauer's writing could be...
The perfect summary comes from page 97 of "On Study" by Francis Bacon -"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."My first brief glance of this collection is even beyond the lightest "read", hence this book will be revisited when the subject-matter of these great essays become more familiar in
