Essays

Alice Meynell

Casa editrice: e-artnow

Sinossi

Essays is a set of short writings by Alice Meynell. Meynell was a British author, editor, commentator, and suffragist, remembered mainly for her poetry. Excerpt: "The world at present is inclined to make sorry mysteries or unattractive secrets of the methods and supplies of the fresh and perennial means of life.  A very dull secret is made of water, for example, and the plumber sets his seal upon the floods whereby we live.  They are covered, they are carried, they are hushed, from the spring to the tap; and when their voices are released at last in the London scullery, why, it can hardly be said that the song is eloquent of the natural source of waters, whether earthly or heavenly.  There is not one of the circumstances of this capture of streams—the company, the water-rate, and the rest—that is not a sign of the ill-luck of modern devices in regard to style.  For style implies a candour and simplicity of means, an action, a gesture, as it were, in the doing of small things; it is the ignorance of secret ways; whereas the finish of modern life and its neatness seem to be secured by a system of little shufflings and surprises."

Disponibile da: 16/06/2020.

Lunghezza di stampa: 230 pagine.

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