Quotes by Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey

But Racine’s extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

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Psychologist

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying – half unconsciously, perhaps – to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

Genius

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Trying

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Drama

Literature

Mind

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Dubious

Evil

Hygiene

If this is dying, I don’t think much of it.

Dying

Last Words

Thinking

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Literature

Peculiar

Triumph

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Character

Genius

Quality

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Poet

Modern as the style of Pascal’s writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

Past

Style

Writing

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

Creation Of Man

Men

Writing

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Quotes by Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey

But Racine’s extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying – half unconsciously, perhaps – to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

If this is dying, I don’t think much of it.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Modern as the style of Pascal’s writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

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