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Title: Essays on the Self
Author: WOOLF VIRGINIA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/01/2014
Imprint: NOTTINGHILL
Price: $29.95
Publishing status: Active
Woolf’s fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who ‘seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended’. He is, Woolf adds,so complex, so eccentric, that we ‘become dazed in the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge’. He was incapable of adopting requisite social modes, of suppressing his obsessive urge to talk, of pandering to the expectations of others. Woolf tries to capture a ‘clear picture’ of Coleridge but this metaphor is skewed and what she really reveals is a voice – mad and beautiful – never to be heard again
Series: Classic Collection
ISBN: 9781907903922
Weight: 227g
Dimension: 191mm X 119mm
Pages: 184