Women, Literature, Criticism

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Harry Raphael Garvin
Bucknell University Press, 1978 - 177 pages
The essays in this book range from historical to biographical, archetypal and formalist, often in combination. All the essays, however, take a new look at the question of women and literature, with an awareness of working in an atmosphere of change.

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Contents

I
9
II
11
III
15
IV
17
V
27
VI
37
VIII
49
IX
60
XII
81
XIII
83
XV
95
XVII
106
XXI
119
XXII
137
XXIII
139
XXIV
157

X
72

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Page 27 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 44 - Man for the field and woman for the hearth : Man for the sword and for the needle she : Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.
Page 89 - Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?
Page 28 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 19 - I think the only re-sourcing of art, revivifying it, is to make it more the joint work of man and woman. I think the one thing to do, is for men to have courage to draw nearer to women, expose themselves to them, and be altered by them: and for women to accept and admit men.
Page 45 - For woman is not undevelopt man, . But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 25 - Burning out the shames, the deepest, oldest shames, in the most secret places. It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a slave, a physical slave.
Page 84 - Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer...
Page 86 - Men of England ! look at your poor girls, many of them fading around you, dropping off in consumption or decline ; or, what is worse, ~r~^ degenerating to sour old maids, — envious, backbiting, wretched, because life is a desert to them...

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