So I was trying to figure out why Virginia Woolf said On or about December 1910, human character changed, and I came across Woolf on Modernism: Woolf was succinct in her assessment of the difference between the Victorian novelists and artists like herself. Able by nature to spin sentence after sentence melodiously, she wrote, they seem to have left out nothing that they knew how to say. Our ambition, on the other hand, is to put in nothing that need not be there. What we want to be there is the brain and the view of life; the autumnal woods, the history of the whale fishery and the decline of stage coaching we omit entirely. (from Michiko Kakutanis review of Peter Stankys Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World, New York Times
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:14:49 +0000
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